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《新科学家》 第3582期 · 2026年2月14日 · 中文解读

冷热之争:单个粒子能有温度吗?

Blowing hot and cold · Jacklin Kwan
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本文探讨了温度在量子领域的定义,指出单个粒子可以拥有两个温度,这挑战了经典热力学中温度的概念。
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Can a single particle have a temperature? Jacklin Kwan enters the quantum realm to find out O NE of the more absurd things about science is that you can spend years studying and reading about the universe’s deepest mysteries – dark matter, quantum gravity, the nature of time – and still get tripped up by something deceptively simple. Nobel-prizewinning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman famously confessed that, as a student, he didn’t really understand why mirrors flip images left to right rather than up and down. I’m no Feynman; I know how mirrors work. But I’ve had my own humbling reckoning with the obvious: temperature. just one particle. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3582期 · 2026年2月14日,Jacklin Kwan。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。
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