About some current frontiers of the second law
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David Jou
Abstract
This paper provides a concise overview of three current and very active frontiers of the second law of thermodynamics; namely, non-equilibrium macroscopic systems, mesoscopic systems, and systems with quantum correlations. Rather than providing an extensive review of this very wide topic, we sketch some views on the basic ideas of several current explorations of the limits of the second law. Furthermore, we emphasise the relevance of a suitable definition of temperature in non-equilibrium situations to avoid some apparent paradoxes arising in Carnot cycles with driven heat reservoirs with quantum correlations.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents of Volume 29 (2004)
- Analytical Subject Index
- Index of Authors
- Acknowledgement
- Highlight: 8th Joint European Thermodynamics Conference
- The non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach to the dynamics of mesoscopic systems
- Mesoscopic nonequilibrium kinetics of nucleation processes
- About some current frontiers of the second law
- Hydrodynamic stability of binary mixtures in Bénard and thermogravitational cells
- Hydrothermal waves and corotating rolls in laterally heated convection in simple liquids
- Toward a complete description of nucleation and growth in liquid–liquid phase separation
- Interplay between thermodynamics and geometry in the adsorption of non-spherical nanoparticles at liquid/liquid interfaces
- Thermo-diffusion revisited: A comparative approach between two recent thermodynamic formalisms