{"id":226909,"date":"2025-12-11T09:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/study-links-vanishing-of-specific-heats-at-absolute-zero-with-principle-of-entropy-increase"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:26:34","slug":"study-links-vanishing-of-specific-heats-at-absolute-zero-with-principle-of-entropy-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/study-links-vanishing-of-specific-heats-at-absolute-zero-with-principle-of-entropy-increase","title":{"rendered":"Study links vanishing of specific heats at absolute zero with principle of entropy increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-links-vanishing-of-specific-heats-at-absolute-zero-with-principle-of-entropy-increase.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new publication, Professor Jos\u00e9-Mar\u00eda Mart\u00edn-Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Seville, has described the direct link between the vanishing of specific heats at absolute zero\u2014a general experimental observation established in the early 20th century\u2014and the second law of thermodynamics.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1402-4896\/ae22a5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physica Scripta<\/i>, reinterprets a 100-year-old problem and completes the consequences of the principle of increasing entropy in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The new study follows another published in the <i>European Physical Journal Plus<\/i> in June 2025, in which Professor Mart\u00edn-Olalla <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-06-thermodynamics-revisited-year-problem-einstein.html\">linked Nernst\u2019s theorem<\/a> (the other general property of matter at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-06-thermodynamics-revisited-year-problem-einstein.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">absolute zero<\/a>) with the second law of thermodynamics, correcting an original idea of Einstein\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new publication, Professor Jos\u00e9-Mar\u00eda Mart\u00edn-Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Seville, has described the direct link between the vanishing of specific heats at absolute zero\u2014a general experimental observation established in the early 20th century\u2014and the second law of thermodynamics. The study, published in Physica Scripta, reinterprets a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226909","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}