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

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 simpler terms, the second law of thermodynamics means that things naturally tend to become more disordered over time.

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

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

For example, the wavefunction can interfere with ... is quantum fields stretching through all of space. The rules of quantum theory imply that small vibrations in such fields naturally seem ...

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

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

The quantum revolution is advancing technology, and new experimental equipment from the University of Barcelona helps ...

Physicists have built a new type of digital-analogue quantum simulator in Google’s laboratory, which can be used to study ...