Some quantum systems may resist an entropic effect called thermalization
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The fundamental laws of physics assert that no pattern can permanently survive as nature moves steadily toward disorder. The new proof provides a unique counterexample to the once-established notion that all collections of particles must eventually succumb to entropy.
“Our results may seem quite surprising,” he says andrew lucas at the University of Colorado. But his team’s discovery is actually the latest entry in a decades-long debate over whether quantum particles can maintain certain properties forever.
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