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

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

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

The second law of thermodynamics demands that the entropy of any closed macroscopic system should never decrease. The laws of physics naturally drive systems towards states of increasing disorder ...

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 ...

then this kind of entropy increases in a closed quantum system until it levels off around a maximum value – exactly as is known from thermodynamics in classical systems. The more time passes ...

Statistical physics and thermodynamics provide a framework for relating the behaviour of microscopic particles to the macroscopic properties of a system ... machine-learned closed-form models ...

This week, astronomers reported the discovery of a super-Earth potentially capable of sustaining life, occupying an eccentric orbit around its star that oscillates in and out of the habitable zone.