Inevitable irreversibility in a quantum system consisting of many non-interacting ``small'' pieces
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We review the recent result of Sato, Sekimoto, Hondou, and Takagi (cond-mat/0008393) on the irreversibility inevitably observed in systems consisting of many non-interacting ``small'' pieces. We focus on quantum models, and supply an explicit lower bound for the work required to complete a cyclic process.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008420,
title = {Inevitable irreversibility in a quantum system consisting of many non-interacting ``small'' pieces},
author = {Hal Tasaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008420},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, 1 figure (The title has been changed to avoid misunderstandings.)