Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

The Second Law of Thermodynamics says, in simple terms, entropy always increases. This principle explains, for example, why you can't unscramble an egg.

The second law of thermodynamics underpins all of classical reality. It is the reason why it's easier to make things messy, why you can’t have perpetual motion, why you age, and maybe even why ...

Vibrating optomechanical membranes offer a way to measure the thermodynamic cost of synchronising two clocks Ensuring that different clocks are giving the same time is crucial to enable electronic ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Terahertz calorimetry enables real-time, picosecond-resolved quantification of thermodynamic parameters such as solvation entropy and enthalpy during protein ...

Albert Einstein considered thermodynamics to be among those principles unlikely to be changed by future scientific discoveries. “It is the only physical theory of universal content,” he wrote ...

Random physical fluctuations – or noise – can be a source of errors for conventional computers, but for a prototype "thermodynamic computer" they can be harnessed to run calculations ...

Thermodynamics of Computations with Absolute Irreversibility, Unidirectional Transitions, and Stochastic Computation Times. Physical Review X , 2024; 14 (2) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.14.021026 Cite ...

Advanced compute, not talent, may be the limiting resource in AI’s benefits becoming ubiquitous. Our goal is to unlock a step change in AI capabilities and efficiency through our novel thermodynamic ...