A long-standing law of thermodynamics turns out to have a loophole at the smallest scales. Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional ...

The strontium atomic clock measures time so precisely it would not lose a second for 15 billion years, redefining how time can be tracked.

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

A study by physicists affiliated with the Foundational Questions Institute (FQxI) found that time ...

Copper atoms trapped in MXene nanochannels remove 94.9% of bisphenol A in 5 minutes by concentrating reactants and lowering ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

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Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have demonstrated that the Carnot principle, a foundational rule of thermodynamics, does not fully apply ...

Physicists from University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University (Finland) has realized experimentally a two-dimensional topological crystalline insulator. This is a quantum material that has been ...

Scientists developed a theory linking mobile and static behaviors of a particle in a Fermi sea, explaining quasiparticles and ...

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