Feeding upon negative entropy in a thermal-equilibrium environment

Details Feeding upon negative entropy in a thermal-equilibrium environment Feeding upon negative entropy in a thermal-equilibrium environment

2003-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0305072v3

Physics

Classical Physics

4 pages, 4 figures. Revised version

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The validity of the Second Law of thermodynamics, indisputable in the macroscopic world, is challenged at the mesoscopic level: a mesoscopic isolated system, possessing spatial dimensions of the order of a few microns, is capable, as shown by a straightforward kinetic analysis, to exhibit a perpetuum mobile behavior associated with large negative variations of the Clausius entropy of the system. This violation of the Second Law is expedient for devising a cyclic process through which an isolated system can extract energy from a surrounding thermal bath.

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