The World’s Hottest Engine Is Smaller Than a Cell and Hotter Than the Sun’s Corona
Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that…
Efficient quantum thermal simulation | Nature
We provide the explicit form of our construction and explain how exact detailed balance can be achieved through…
Thermodynamic limits surpassed with quantum energy-harvesting method
Japanese researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in energy harvesting that could redefine efficiency limits. By exploiting quantum states…
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…