• Title of article

    Violation of the second law of thermodynamics in the quantum microworld

  • Author/Authors

    V. ?pek، نويسنده , , MICHAEL J. BOK، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
  • Pages
    23
  • From page
    379
  • To page
    401
  • Abstract
    One of the previously reported linear models of open quantum systems (interacting with a single thermal bath but otherwise not aided from outside) endowed with the faculty of spontaneous self-organization challenging standard thermodynamics is reconstructed here. It is then able to produce, in a cyclic manner, a useful (this time mechanical) work at the cost of just thermal energy in the bath whose quanta get properly in-phased. This means perpetuum mobile of the second kind explicitly violating the second law in its Thomson formulation. No approximations can be made responsible for the effect as a special scaling procedure is used that makes the chosen kinetic theory exact. The effect is purely quantum and disappears in the classical limit
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    2001
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Record number

    866957