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 ...

Landauer's principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

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A new hypothesis called the “quantum memory matrix” could solve long-standing physics questions, including the Black Hole ...

A controversial theory suggests that brain microtubules could contain quantum phenomena, linking your consciousness to the ...

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At the heart of Bianconi’s theory is the concept of quantum relative entropy (QRE). This is a fundamental concept of information theory, and it quantifies the difference in information encoded in two ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

In 2014, a research team from Singapore demonstrated mathematically a direct connection between the complementarity principle and the degree of unknown information in a quantum system, the so ...