Systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium are very common in nature. In recent years they have attracted constantly growing attention because of their relevance for fundamental physics as well as for ...

As systems and devices become ever smaller, we're increasingly being forced to reconsider ideas we've relied on for decades. Unsurprisingly, this can be quite an undertaking — and none more so, ...

(Phys.org)—In 1876, the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann noticed something surprising about his equations that describe the flow of heat in a gas. Usually, the colliding gas particles eventually ...

Exclusion processes constitute a paradigmatic class of models in statistical physics, capturing the collective behaviour of particles that hop on discrete lattices under hard‐core exclusion and ...

Three different papers by three different groups on the same theme back-to-back in Nature? That is unusual. Yes, which is why they caught my eye. The papers all look rather interesting: they are about ...

Imaginary numbers are a solution to a very real problem, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports. Two physicists at Argonne National Laboratory offered a way to mathematically ...