Tibra Ali

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Abstract Inspired by black hole thermodynamics, the area law that entropy is proportional to horizon area has been proposed in quantum entanglement entropy and has largely maintained its validity. This article shows that the area law is also valid for the thermodynamic entropy of molecules. We showed that the gas-phase entropy of molecules obeys the area law with our proposed correction for the different curvatures of the molecular surface.

I was a poor PhD student at Cambridge when one day I came upon Stephen Hawking’s inaugural lecture Is the end in sight for theoretical physics? in a second-hand bookshop. Being a life-long bibliophile, I immediately recognized how rare this book was. It was the lecture that Stephen Hawking gave when he was inducted into the prestigious Lucasian Professorship (a chair which had been once held by Sir Isaac Newton and Paul Dirac, the eminent quantum physicist).