Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information, Thermodynamics, Their Intersection, and Applications Thereof Across Physics

Citation

Yunger Halpern, Nicole (2018) Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information, Thermodynamics, Their Intersection, and Applications Thereof Across Physics. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/96EJ-N815. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05262018-061607919

Abstract

Combining quantum information theory (QIT) with thermodynamics unites 21st-century technology with 19th-century principles. The union elucidates the spread of information, the flow of time, and the leveraging of energy. This thesis contributes to the theory of quantum thermodynamics, particularly to QIT thermodynamics. The thesis also contains applications of the theory, wielded as a toolkit, across physics. Fields touched on include atomic, molecular, and optical physics; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; condensed matter; high-energy physics; and chemistry. I propose the name quantum steampunk for this program. The term derives from the steampunk genre of literature, art, and cinema that juxtaposes futuristic technologies with 19th-century settings.

Item Type:

Thesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

Subject Keywords:

Quantum information, thermodynamics, theoretical physics

Degree Grantor:

California Institute of Technology

Division:

Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

Major Option:

Physics

Awards:

Barbara Groce Graduate Fellowship (PMA Division, Caltech, Mar.–June. 2018). KITP Graduate Fellowship (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, U. of California at Santa Barbara, July–Dec. 2017). Burke Graduate Student Fellowship (Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Caltech, Jan.–June 2017). IQIM Graduate Fellowship (Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Caltech, NSF, and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Oct. 2014–Oct. 2015). Virginia Gilloon Fellowship (Caltech, Oct. 2013–Oct. 2014).

Thesis Availability:

Public (worldwide access)

Research Advisor(s):

Preskill, John P.

Group:

Institute for Quantum Information and Matter

Thesis Committee:

Preskill, John P. (chair)
Brandao, Fernando
Chen, Xie
Endres, Manuel A.

Defense Date:

25 May 2018

Non-Caltech Author Email:

nicoleyh.11 (AT) gmail.com

Additional Information:

The author's last (family) name is "Yunger Halpern."

Funders:

Funding Agency	Grant Number
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Caltech	PHY-0803371, PHY-1125565, GBMF-2644
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Caltech	UNSPECIFIED
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics	PHY-1125915
Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi)	Large Grant for "Time and the Structure of Quantum Theory"

Projects:

Quantum equilibration in many-body systems, Athermality as a resource in work extraction from quantum many-body systems: MBL-mobile, Athermality as a resource in information processing: Quantum information in quantum cognition, Non-Abelian thermal state, Resource theories for thermodynamics, Fluctuation relations and one-shot information theory

Record Number:

CaltechTHESIS:05262018-061607919

Persistent URL:

https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05262018-061607919

DOI:

10.7907/96EJ-N815

Related URLs:

URL	URL Type	Description
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.012120	DOI	Paper version of Ch. 1
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.042105	DOI	Paper version of Ch. 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07008	arXiv	Paper version of Ch. 3
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12051	DOI	Paper version of Ch. 4
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/9/095003	DOI	Paper "Introducing one-shot work into fluctuation relations"
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.022126	DOI	Paper "Beyond heat baths: Generalized resource theories for small-scale thermodynamics"
https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aaa62f	DOI	Paper "Beyond heat baths II: Framework for generalized thermodynamic resource theories"
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.052144	DOI	Paper "Number of trials required to estimate a free-energy difference, using fluctuation relations"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04801	arXiv	Paper "Quantum information in quantum cognition"
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.062306	DOI	Paper "Quantum voting and violation of Arrow's impossibility theorem"
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.052135	DOI	Paper "Maximum one-shot dissipated work from Rényi divergences"
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43760-6_8	DOI	Book chapter "Toward Physical Realizations of Thermodynamic Resource Theories"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01587	arXiv	Paper "Resilience of scrambling measurements"
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa62ba	DOI	Paper "Entropic equality for worst-case work at any protocol speed"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00667	arXiv	Paper "Strengthening weak measurement of qubit out-of-time-order correlators"
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1807.09786	DOI	Thesis in ArXiv

ORCID:

Author	ORCID
Yunger Halpern, Nicole	0000-0001-8670-6212

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ID Code:

10942

Collection:

CaltechTHESIS

Deposited By:

Nicole Yunger Halpern

Deposited On:

01 Jun 2018 20:57

Last Modified:

21 Jun 2023 22:29

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