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Dec 19, 2022

How chaos theory mediates between quantum theory and thermodynamics

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A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed—but it is not possible to translate that into a temperature. Only when dealing with random velocity distributions of many particles does a well-defined temperature emerge.

How can the laws of thermodynamics arise from the laws of ? This is a topic that has attracted growing attention in recent years. At TU Wien (Vienna), this question has now been pursued with , which showed that chaos plays a crucial role: Only where chaos prevails do the well-known rules of thermodynamics follow from quantum physics.

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