The light interacts with the cavity and makes an arbitrary number of bounces before leaking out. This emergent light is traditionally treated as heat in quantum simulations. However, it can still be ...

VISAKHAPATNAM: Renowned chemical engineer and author Norman P Lieberman explained the fundamental aspects of distillation, steam turbines and thermodynamics in highly practical and easily ...

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Nernst's theorem—a general experimental observation presented in 1905 that entropy exchanges tend to zero when the temperature tends to zero—has been directly linked to the second principle of ...

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does not apply to objects on the atomic scale whose physical properties are linked ...

Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences Classes in thermodynamics do not belong to the students' favourite ones. Inappropriately lectured, thermodynamics is usually ...

Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in top hats and petticoats. That type of retrofuturistic mash-up is the ...

Classical and statistical thermodynamics; entropy and energy functions in liquid and solid solutions and their applications to phase equilibria. Lectures, problem solving. A student who has completed ...

It would take a foolhardy physicist to dare attempt to break the laws of thermodynamics. But it turns out that there may be ways to bend them. At a lab at the University of Oxford, UK, quantum ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 55, No. 6 (Jun. 15, 1966), pp. 1379-1385 (7 pages) ...