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Comment on "Cooling by Heating: Refrigerator Powered by Photons"

Statistical Mechanics 2013-02-19 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Results obtained recently in Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 120603 (2012) by Cleuren et al. apparently contradict to the third law of thermodynamics. We discuss a scenario for resolving this contradiction, and show that this scenario is pertinent for clarifying the general message of the third law.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1302.4392,
  title  = {Comment on "Cooling by Heating: Refrigerator Powered by Photons"},
  author = {Armen E. Allahverdyan and Karen V. Hovhannisyan and Guenter Mahler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4392},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

A shorter version of this two page paper was published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248903 (2012)

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