
<p>Earlier this year I met the Massachusetts-based steampunk artist <a href="https://modvic.com/">Bruce Rosenbaum</a> at the Global Physics Summit of the American Physical Society. He was exhibiting a beautiful sculpture of a “<a href="https://physicsworld.com/a/steampunk-meets-quantum-physics-at-the-gps/">quantum engine</a>” that was created in collaboration with physicists including NIST’s <a href="https://quics.umd.edu/people/nicole-yunger-halpern">Nicole Yunger Halpern</a> – who pioneered the scientific field of <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09786">quantum steampunk</a>.</p>
<p>I was so taken by the art and science of quantum steampunk that I promised Rosenbaum that I would chat with him and Yunger Halpern on the podcast – and here is that conversation. We begin by exploring the art of steampunk and how it is influenced by the technology of the 19th century. Then, we look at the physics of quantum steampunk, a field that weds modern concepts of quantum information with thermodynamics – which itself is a scientific triumph of the 19th century.</p>
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<li>Philip Ball reviews Yunger Halpern’s 2022 book <a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12750/quantum-steampunk"><em>Quantum Steampunk: the Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow</em></a></li>
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