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An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have unveiled ...

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Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

For over a century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity have stood as the cornerstones of modern physics, yet ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

Quantum computers process multiple possibilities at once, unlike traditional computers. Quantum properties like entanglement ...

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

An analog-digital approach to quantum simulation could lay the foundations for the next generation of supercomputers to ...

The dream-come-true scenario of the existence of quantum computers transforming our day-to-day lives is a nightmare scenario ...

But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical ... Physics: Current Generated by the Quantum Hall Effect Has ...