Maxwell’s demon and the second law of thermodynamics

Foundations of Physics Letters - Tập 10 - Trang 89-92 - 1997
Richard L. Liboff1
1Schools of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca

Tóm tắt

An idealized, two-dimensional Maxwell demon is described which incorporates an irreversible process. The vertex of the device acts as a purely mechanical ‘trap door’. This idealized mechanism is found to generate a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. These results indicate that the second law of thermodynamics is not valid in general for idealized, irreversible systems.

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