Researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have unveiled new insights into the interplay ...

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 ...

New research shows that the second law of thermodynamics, which states entropy increases over time, also applies to closed quantum systems.

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 time ...

Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more ...

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

By opening and closing the door, it divides the cold and hot portions of the gas, creating a system with lower entropy – the disorder of the system – and that would break the second law.

These findings provide further insights into the mysterious relationship between the quantum world and thermodynamics. While ...

The second law of thermodynamics, a cornerstone of modern physics, states that entropy—a measure of disorder—never spontaneously decreases. It governs everything from the efficiency of engines to the ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, to put it more precisely: that entropy must increase in every closed ...