A new study derives a generalized Bernoulli's equation from the total chemical potential, recasting pipe-flow analysis as a ...

Thermodynamics is the mathematical analysis of energy relationships. It is a scientific discipline concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work. It deals with the bulk ...

Atom–cavity systems are already used for precision measurement, where it is exactly these quantum signatures that deliver the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems. The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long ...

When neutrons slam into the metal walls of a nuclear reactor, they knock atoms out of their lattice sites and leave behind a ...

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 ...

A new study by Queen Mary University of London mathematician Professor Ginestra Bianconi proposes a new perspective on one of the deepest questions in modern physics: How can the universe become ...

Physicists at West Virginia University have made a breakthrough on an age-old limitation of the first law of thermodynamics. West Virginia University physicists have made a breakthrough on an age-old ...

Thermodynamics — the branch of physics dealing with heat and its relation to other forms of energy — is profound stuff. Rooted in the engineering realities of engines and air conditioners, it also ...

An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...