A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...
Thermodynamics was built to describe steam engines and stars, yet the same equations now sit at the heart of quantum ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2023 – Though a cornerstone of thermodynamics, entropy remains one of the most vexing concepts to teach budding physicists in the classroom. As a result, many people oversimplify ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Liquids relax extremely slowly on approaching the glass state. One explanation is that an entropy crisis, because of the rarefaction of ...
A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the ...
The steady tick of a clock usually feels simple and dependable. Something swings or vibrates in a controlled rhythm and marks ...
Since the end of the 19th century, physicists have known that the transfer of energy from one body to another is associated with entropy. It quickly became clear that this quantity is of fundamental ...
Explore the intriguing solution to Maxwell's demon paradox as Rolf Landauer reveals how erasing information generates heat ...