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Physicists make thermodynamics work inside the quantum world

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...
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An Engineering Refresher: The Laws of Thermodynamics

The Laws of Thermodynamics are the foundation of heat transfer and energy work. When any engineer is designing or implementing a system, the consideration of heat loss or energy produced is influenced ...
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Apparent macroscopic violation of the second law of thermodynamics in a quantum system is discovered

Researchers have encountered a partial violation of the second law of thermodynamics in a quantum system known as Hofstadter lattice. This partial violation has no place within the framework of ...