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    Quantum thermodynamics is the study of the relations between two independent physical theories: thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. The two independent...
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    In physics, black hole thermodynamics is the area of study that seeks to reconcile the laws of thermodynamics with the existence of black hole event horizons...
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    relevance of thermodynamics in much of science and technology, its history is finely woven with the developments of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics...
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    The laws of thermodynamics are a set of scientific laws which define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize...
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    Maximum entropy thermodynamics Non-equilibrium thermodynamics Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics Psychrometrics Quantum thermodynamics Statistical...
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    early in the history of classical thermodynamics, and with the development of statistical thermodynamics and quantum theory, entropy changes have been...
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    process Ground state Laws of thermodynamics Quantum thermodynamics Residual entropy Thermodynamic entropy Timeline of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics...
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    expressed in the third law of thermodynamics. At this temperature, matter contains no macroscopic thermal energy, but still has quantum-mechanical zero-point...
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    In thermodynamics, a reversible process is a process, involving a system and its surroundings, whose direction can be reversed by infinitesimal changes...
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  • pre-quantum thermodynamics that had troubled 19th-century scientists. Let us now describe this. The level sets of H are the orbits, and the quantum condition...
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    universe History of thermodynamics Jarzynski equality Laws of thermodynamics Maximum entropy thermodynamics Quantum thermodynamics Reflections on the Motive...
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    be just one nuclide (i.e. a system of quarks) as hypothesized in quantum thermodynamics. The system is the part of the universe being studied, while the...
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  • fluctuating trajectory. Stochastic thermodynamics can be applied to driven (i.e. open) quantum systems whenever the effects of quantum coherence can be ignored...
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    formalized largely by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) as the field of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics aided the rapid development of explanations of chemical processes...
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    The first law of thermodynamics is a formulation of the law of conservation of energy in the context of thermodynamic processes. The law distinguishes...
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  • justifying the need for a quantum theory termed quantum thermodynamics. The three-level-amplifier is the template of a quantum device. It operates by employing...
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    The zeroth law of thermodynamics is one of the four principal laws of thermodynamics. It provides an independent definition of temperature without reference...
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    reconcile quantum mechanics and thermodynamics over the years, their compatibility is still an open fundamental problem. The full extent that quantum properties...
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  • measurement theory, quantum statistical mechanics, quantum information science, quantum thermodynamics, quantum cosmology, quantum biology, and semi-classical...
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    A timeline of events in the history of thermodynamics. 1593 – Galileo Galilei invents one of the first thermoscopes, also known as Galileo thermometer...
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    known as thermodynamics, the science of energy transformations. Stemming from the 1850s development of the first two laws of thermodynamics, the science...
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    passed into the water as heat. A pre-supposed guiding principle of thermodynamics is the conservation of energy. The total energy of a system is the sum...
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  • free dictionary. Thermodynamic equilibrium is an axiomatic concept of thermodynamics. It is an internal state of a single thermodynamic system, or a relation...
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    in 1967, he co-founded the Center for Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, now the Center for Complex Quantum Systems. In that year, he also returned...
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    and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, analytical dynamics and chemical...
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    Quantum field theory in curved space-time and black hole thermodynamics. Chicago U. ISBN 0-226-87025-1. Fewster, C. J. (2008). "Lectures on quantum field...
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    In thermodynamics, the volume of a system is an important extensive parameter for describing its thermodynamic state. The specific volume, an intensive...
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    Adiabatic process (category Atmospheric thermodynamics)
    quantum adiabatic process provides a good justification for identifying it as the quantum analogue of adiabatic processes in classical thermodynamics...
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    Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a branch of thermodynamics that deals with physical systems that are not in thermodynamic equilibrium but can be described...
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    Carnot's theorem, also called Carnot's rule, is a principle of thermodynamics developed by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot in 1824 that specifies limits on...
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