Stabilizing effect of amino acids on protein and colloidal dispersions
Second osmotic virial coefficient A common way to evaluate the stability of a compound in a dispersion is…
Why Is Ice Slippery? New Study Overturns 200-Year-Old Physics Theory
It isn’t pressure or friction that makes ice slippery, but hidden forces at the molecular level. New findings…
Time-domain thermoreflectance | Nature Reviews Methods Primers
Cahill, D. G. Analysis of heat flow in layered structures for time-domain thermoreflectance. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 5119–5122…
A strange quantum battery concept reveals the second law of entanglement
For more than a century, the laws of thermodynamics have helped us understand how energy moves, how engines…
Physicist solves 120-yr-old thermodynamics puzzle
A professor at the University of Seville has resolved a 120-year-old puzzle in thermodynamics, correcting a long-standing interpretation…
Quasicrystal stability and nucleation kinetics from density functional theory
Shechtman, D., Blech, I., Gratias, D. & Cahn, J. W. Metallic phase with long-range orientational order and no…
Experimentally probing Landauer’s principle in the quantum many-body regime
Information theory and thermodynamics constitute foundational pillars of modern technology and underpin our understanding of computers and heat…
Noise-Driven Computing: A Paradigm Shift
A new computing paradigm—thermodynamic computing—has entered the scene. Okay, okay, maybe it’s just probabilistic computing by a new…
Thermodynamic computing system for AI applications
The Stochastic Processing Unit We now introduce our stochastic processing unit (SPU), which is depicted in the left…
Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers
Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware…