A new study published in Nature Communications has shown that in the asymptotic limit, extracting the maximum possible work ...

Why is important to study the thermodynamics of D-Wave quantum processors? Michele Campisi: Quantum technology has just entered the “noisy intermediate-scale quantum” (NISQ) era. This is characterized ...

The idea that the Universe is expanding dates from almost a century ago. It was first put forward by Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) in 1927 and confirmed observationally by American ...

The South Asian summer monsoon sustains billions of people today. For a long time, the prevailing scientific view has held ...

Regular readers of Nobel Intent know that one of my favorite topics to cover (and study) is computer simulation of real world phenomena, specifically statistical thermodynamic and molecular phenomena.

A deep understanding of the irreversibility of the arrow of time cannot ignore the quantum nature of the world that surrounds us. A deep understanding of the irreversibility of the arrow of time ...

Albert Einstein explained the following in his Autobiographical Notes of 1949: “A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different things it relates, and the ...