Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully coupled a continuous time crystal-a quantum system that oscillates ...

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Physicists have created a device that has experimentally exceeded the conventional second law of thermodynamics. The device is an information engine, which converts information into work, and it is ...

When French engineer Sadi Carnot calculated the maximum efficiency of a heat engine in 1824, he had no idea what heat was. In those days, physicists thought heat was a fluid called caloric. But Carnot ...

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Thermodynamics is traditionally concerned with systems comprised of a large number of particles. Here we present a framework for extending thermodynamics to individual quantum systems, including ...

In seeming defiance of the second law of thermodynamics, nature is filled with examples of order emerging from chaos. A new theoretical framework resolves the apparent paradox Science has given ...