{"id":246387,"date":"2026-11-03T00:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-quantum-pathway-to-entropy-free-energy-transfer"},"modified":"2026-11-03T00:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:44:26","slug":"a-quantum-pathway-to-entropy-free-energy-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-quantum-pathway-to-entropy-free-energy-transfer","title":{"rendered":"A quantum pathway to entropy-free energy transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For scientists, breakthroughs often stem from unexpected turns. A research team led by Oscar Dahlsten, an associate professor in the Department of Physics at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK), set out to prove a theoretical limitation, only to discover a quantum solution. The finding breaks traditional physical constraints and introduces a strategy for harvesting energy from fluctuating sources.<\/p>\n<p>The study was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/12b6-hw2h\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> under the title \u201cNonunique Decompositions of Mixed States and Deterministic Energy Transfers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Energy from natural sources is often accompanied by entropy, or randomness, making it difficult to convert into the predictable power needed to charge batteries and operate electronic devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For scientists, breakthroughs often stem from unexpected turns. A research team led by Oscar Dahlsten, an associate professor in the Department of Physics at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK), set out to prove a theoretical limitation, only to discover a quantum solution. The finding breaks traditional physical constraints and introduces a strategy for harvesting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246387","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=246387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}