Comments on Extraction of Work from a Single Thermal Bath in the Quantum Regime
Quantum Physics
2007-06-20 v2
Abstract
In a PRL [1], the authors claim to show that "the Clausius inequality can be violated, and that it is even possible to extract work from a thermal bath by cyclic variations of a parameter ("perpetuum mobile"), and that the physical cause for this behavior is traced back to quantum coherence in the presence of the nonequilibrium bath (sic)".
Cite
@article{arxiv.0706.2835,
title = {Comments on Extraction of Work from a Single Thermal Bath in the Quantum Regime},
author = {Elias P. Gyftopoulos and Michael R. von Spakovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2835},
year = {2007}
}