Publication Date:
2018-06-19
Description:
Author(s): Jonathan G. Richens, Álvaro M. Alhambra, and Lluis Masanes The second law of thermodynamics states that a system in contact with a heat bath can undergo a transformation if and only if its free energy decreases. However, the “if” part of this statement is only true when the effective heat bath is infinite. In this article we remove this idealization and der... [Phys. Rev. E 97, 062132] Published Mon Jun 18, 2018
Keywords:
Statistical Physics
Print ISSN:
1539-3755
Electronic ISSN:
1550-2376
Topics:
Physics