It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, to put it more ...

Can quantum systems become more disordered, as thermodynamics would predict? Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: ...

'You could say that Shannon entropy is a measure of how much information you gain from the measurement,' says Florian Meier (TU Wien). "If there is only one possible measurement result that occurs ...