Stephen Whitelam, a researcher whose work spans thermodynamic theory and machine learning, has described a framework for generating images from pure noise by using the physics of heat and motion ...

Researchers generated images from noise, using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models require.

Researchers at the Federal University of ABC, in Brazil, have made a major breakthrough: they've confirmed that thermodynamic processes cannot be reversed, even in a quantum system. This revelation ...

Crystal clear: transmission electron microscope image showing a blob of amorphous calcium phosphate that is beginning to crystallize at the bottom left. (Courtesy: Antiope Lotsari/Chalmers University ...

The extraction of work (i.e., usable energy) from quantum processes is a key focus of quantum thermodynamics research, which explores the application of thermodynamics laws to quantum systems.

Knowledge of thermodynamics and phase equilibria is not only very important from a fundamental point of view (phase transformation, solidification, corrosion and oxidation, etc.) but also ...

In biophysics, the kinetic states of molecules play a determining role in the metabolic and physiological processes in which they take part. Now, a new article specifies for the first time the levels ...