{"id":207443,"date":"2025-02-28T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/inspired-by-maxwells-demon-heat-flow-acts-as-a-witness-to-quantum-properties"},"modified":"2025-02-28T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:21:13","slug":"inspired-by-maxwells-demon-heat-flow-acts-as-a-witness-to-quantum-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/inspired-by-maxwells-demon-heat-flow-acts-as-a-witness-to-quantum-properties","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by Maxwell\u2019s demon, heat flow acts as a witness to quantum properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inspired-by-maxwells-demon-heat-flow-acts-as-a-witness-to-quantum-properties2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.050401\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, scientists have discovered a novel approach to detecting the quantum properties of a system by simply using heat as a witness, requiring no direct measurement of the quantum system itself.<\/p>\n<p>The study proposes connecting thermodynamics with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information+theory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information theory<\/a>, drawing inspiration from the concept of Maxwell\u2019s demon.<\/p>\n<p>The concept proposed in the 19th century involves an imaginary entity, Maxwell\u2019s demon, that can sort gas molecules by their velocities inside a closed box, seemingly violating the second law of thermodynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have discovered a novel approach to detecting the quantum properties of a system by simply using heat as a witness, requiring no direct measurement of the quantum system itself. The study proposes connecting thermodynamics with quantum information theory, drawing inspiration from the concept of Maxwell\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}