March 2026

Physics

Real memory cells reveal a thermodynamic limit stricter than Landauer’s

Single-electron-resolved measurements on silicon DRAM showed bit erasure never reaches the Landauer bound, exposing a tighter, practically relevant limit on erasure energetics.

20 March 2026

Physics

A single-qubit engine amplifies microwaves using only quantum measurement

A superconducting qubit acts as a quantum Maxwell demon, turning the backaction energy of repeated measurements into amplified microwave pulses with no hot thermal source.

2 March 2026