Can quantum systems become more disordered, as thermodynamics would predict? Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: ...

Bartosz Regula from the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and Ludovico Lami from the University of Amsterdam have shown, through probabilistic calculations, that there is indeed, as had been ...

Irreversibility is linked to the production of entropy and relaxation to thermal equilibrium. Entropy production has now been measured at the nanoscale using quantum dots. Entropy is a fundamental yet ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth space-time with the jittery world of quantum mechanics. A new wave of ...

Steepest Entropy Ascent Quantum Thermodynamics (SEAQT) is a theoretical framework that unifies quantum mechanics and thermodynamics to describe the intrinsic non-equilibrium evolution of isolated ...