An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

Entropy always increases, but in quantum systems, traditional entropy measures seem constant. TU Wien researchers resolved this paradox by considering Shannon entropy, which accounts for the ...

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

These findings provide further insights into the mysterious relationship between the quantum world and thermodynamics. While the role of entropy is evident in the classical world, ...

Mathematical equations have shaped our understanding of the universe, and these nine have played a key role in changing the world.

THE application of the second law of thermodynamics to bodies interacting ... to consider it from the point of view of statistical physics.

A team of researchers from Google and the PSI Center for Scientific Computing has developed a novel quantum simulator that ...

Human activities continue to pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, raising global ...