Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...

Can quantum systems become more disordered, as thermodynamics would predict? Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: ...

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of an isolated system tends to increase over time. Everything around us follows this law; for instance, the melting of ice, a room becoming ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

It is once again Nobel Prize season, and this year’s top prize in physics honours three quantum physicists for their discovery of “macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling an ...

Schematic of a single photon with zero angular momentum (green) splitting into two photons (red) with either zero or opposite angular momenta (sketched through the spatially varying color), which adds ...

In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia ...

While quantum phenomena can be demonstrated using experiments such as the Double-Slit Experiment, certifying that a ...