HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Yunger Halpern, Nicole, 1989- author.
Subjects
Quantum theory.
Thermodynamics.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Yunger Halpern, Nicole, 1989- author.
by title:
Quantum steampunk : ...
MARC Display
Quantum steampunk : the physics of yesterday's tomorrow / Nicole Yunger Halpern ; [all illustrations by Todd Cahill].
by
Yunger Halpern, Nicole, 1989- author.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Subjects
Quantum theory.
Thermodynamics.
ISBN:
9781421443720 (hardcover) :
1421443724 (hardcover)
Description:
294 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue: Once upon a time in physics -- Information theory : of passwords and probabilities -- Quantum physics : everything at once, or, one thing at a time? -- Quantum computation : everything at once -- Thermodynamics : "May I drive?" -- A fine merger : thermodynamics, information theory, and quantum physics -- The physics of yesterday's tomorrow : the landscape of quantum steampunk -- Pedal to the metal : quantum thermal machines -- Tick tock : quantum clocks -- Unsteady as she goes : fluctuation relations -- Entropy, energy, and a tiny possibility : one-shot thermodynamics -- Resource theories : a ha'penny of a quantum state -- The unseen kingdom : when quantum observables don't cooperate -- All over the map : rounding out our tour -- Stepping off the map : quantum steampunk crosses borders -- Epilogue: Where to next? : the future of quantum steampunk.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"The science-fiction genre known as steampunk juxtaposes futuristic technologies with Victorian settings. This fantasy is becoming reality at the intersection of two scientific fields-twenty-first-century quantum physics and nineteenth-century thermodynamics, or the study of energy-in a discipline known as quantum steampunk"--Provided by publisher.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
530.12 Yu
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
530.12 Yu
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
530.12 Yu
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.