Topics in thermodynamics
Throughout the years a variety of studies has been made on timely items in diverse fields of thermodynamics:
limits of the adiabatic theorem [P72];
improved heat engines [L37];
violation of Onsager relations in a system with timescale separation [L36];
molecular layering on a fluid substrate [L17];
flux creep in high-temperature superconductors [L13];
quasi-crystalline XY-chains [L3], [C5];
exact solutions of the Boltzmann equation [P2];
unmasking Maxwell's demon [C23];
a comment on "Experimental
demonstration of violations of the second law .."
[L47].
[P72] Armen E. Allahverdyan and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen,
[L37] A.E.
Allahverdyan and Th.M. N., Optimizing the classical heat engine, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 232-235 [L36] A.E.
Allahverdyan and Th.M. N., Entropy production, energy dissipation and
violation of Onsager relations in the steady adiabatic state, Phys.
Rev. E 62 (2000) 845-849 [L17] D.
Bonn, G.H. Wegdam, H. Kellay, and Th.M. N., Molecular layering on a fluid
substrate, Europhys.
Lett. 20 (1992) 235 [L13] Th.M.
N. and J. Pankert, Thermally activated flux-creep in high-temperature
superconductors: a stochastic model,
Europhys. Lett. 11 (1990) 457-462 [L3] J.M.
Luck and Th.M. N., A soluble quasi-crystalline magnetic model: the XY
quantum spin chain, Europhys.
Lett. 2 (1986) 257-266
[P2] E.M.
Hendriks and Th.M. N., Solution to the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for
Maxwell models for nonisotropic initial condions, J. Stat. Phys. 29 (1983)
591-615 [C23] Theo
M. N. and Armen E. Allahverdyan, Unmasking Maxwell's Demon, in: Quantum
Limits to the Second Law, AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 643 (2002), pp. 436-441
[C5] Th.M.
N., The quasi-crystalline quantum spin 1/2 XY-chain, Journal de Physique
Colloque C3, Conference Proceedings Supplement to nr. 7, (1986) pp 211-216 [L47] Theo
M. N. and Armen E. Allahverdyan, Comment on ``Experimental demonstration of violations of
the second law of thermodynamics for small systems and short timescales'',
cond-mat/0207587
Minimal Work Principle and its Limits for Classical Systems,
Phys. Rev. E 75, 051124 (2007) (5 pages).