Carnot process with a single particle
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-15 v2
Abstract
We determine the statistics of work in isothermal volume changes of a classical ideal gas consisting of a single particle. Combining our results with the findings of Lua and Grosberg [J. Chem. Phys. B 109, 6805 (2005)] on adiabatic expansions and compressions we then analyze the joint probability distribution of heat and work for a microscopic, non-equilibrium Carnot cycle and determine its efficiency at maximum power.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1303.0145,
title = {Carnot process with a single particle},
author = {Johannes Hoppenau and Markus Niemann and Andreas Engel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.0145},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, 10 figures