A 200-Year-Old Law of Physics Breaks Down at the Atomic Scale

At the smallest scales, heat engines can do more than Carnot ever imagined. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have shown that the Carnot principle, a foundational rule of thermodynamics, does not hold for atomic-scale systems whose physical properties are interconnected (so-called correlated objects). The finding, published in Science Advances, could help pave the way [...]