From tiny cells to vast cities, life persists by keeping chaos under control. The same thermodynamic forces that cause coffee ...

Blinking dots Photoluminescence image of individual quantum dots used in the experiment. Under time-dependent driving, the system is driven out-of-equilibrium and their blinking trajectories are ...

Entropy also increases in initially ordered quantum systems until it reaches a final state of disorder. Entropy and the direction of time Equating 'entropy' with 'disorder' is not entirely correct.