Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...

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 ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer. A model of the interior of a quantum computer at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in ...