Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

News & Views Published: November 2008 Quantum entanglement Reversible path to thermodynamics Michał Horodecki Nature Physics 4, 833–834 (2008) Cite this article ...

The concept of ACAES is well-established but there are a range of engineering challenges which are yet to be overcome for the technology to be adopted. One significant problem with current design of ...

Adiabatic computing for optimal thermodynamic efficiency of information processing Salambô Dago, Sergio Ciliberto, and Ludovic Bellon Authors Info & Affiliations Edited by John Bechhoefer, Simon ...

Fig. 4. (A) Kinetic energy during a fast erasure process (v 1 = 0.12) at high quality factor (Q = 80). Step 1 in red background lasts τ = 5 ms (with X 1 = 5) and results in a strong temperature rise ...

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes the probability distribution at each step in the diffusion process. Crucially, each step is reversible — with small enough steps, you can go from a simple ...

During the folding process of proteins and other macromolecules, different kinetic states take place between the native state and the denatured state. Examples are transition states, molecular ...