Irene D'Amico | University of York - Inglaterra

• Grant number: 14/50969-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: October 06, 2015
• End date: October 27, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics
• Agreement: CONFAP ; Newton Fund, with FAPESP as a partner institution in Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Menezes Serra
• Grantee: Roberto Menezes Serra
• Visiting researcher: Irene D Amico
• Visiting researcher institution: University of York, England
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil

Abstract

A fundamental law of thermodynamics rules that entropy always tends to increase. However this law was derived for macroscopic systems, while at the microscopic (quantum) level processes follow Schröedinger equation, which seems to contradict this fundamen (AU)