“The crucial thing about our method is that one hand behaves purely in terms of quantum physics, and only the other, slower hand actually has an entropy-generating effect.” For now, this technical ...

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 ...

A physicist solves an old thermodynamic puzzle and demonstrates directly from the second law that entropy disappears at ...

Scientists have finally uncovered a quantum counterpart to Carnot’s famed second law, showing that entanglement—once thought ...

A new study shows entanglement can be reversed—if you plug in a quantum battery. The finding rewrites the rules of the ...

It all stems from Nernst's theorem, also known as the third law of thermodynamics, an experimental observation from 1905 which states that "entropy exchanges tend to zero as temper ...

This is where scientists got the idea that any clock with increased precision also has increased entropy on a mostly 1:1 scale, due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.