Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2004-11-15
Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems, No.3, Col. 11, 2005, LCCN of journal 98-646147
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
15p, 44refs
Scientific paper
Traditional discussions of the Second Law of Thermodynamics studied the limits of very specific types of devices, such as heat engines, chemical reactions, and molecules channeled by valves. Allahverdyan and Nieuwenhuizen (cond-mat/0110422) have come the closest to proving a more general form of the Second Law, applicable to field effect devices -- but recently (cond-mat/0408537) they have observed counterexamples and loopholes. This paper discusses recent field effect nanotechnologies which might permit a more substantial counterexample. Efforts were made to disprove the possibility of extracting electricity from ambient heat, from another perspective -- but these efforts led only to a new result on the equivalence of classical and quantum statistics, which may be important to the backwards-time interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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