Conservation Laws and Thermodynamic Efficiencies
Statistical Mechanics
2013-02-13 v1
Abstract
We show that generic systems with a single relevant conserved quantity reach the Carnot efficiency in the thermodynamic limit. Such a general result is illustrated by means of a diatomic chain of hard-point elastically colliding particles where the total momentum is the only relevant conserved quantity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1302.2723,
title = {Conservation Laws and Thermodynamic Efficiencies},
author = {Giuliano Benenti and Giulio Casati and Jiao Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.2723},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures