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We investigate the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSL) in generalized theories of gravity. We examine the total entropy evolution with time including the horizon entropy, the non-equilibrium entropy production, and the entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Shao-Feng Wu , Bin Wang , Guo-Hong Yang , Peng-Ming Zhang

The first part of this paper is a condensed synthesis of the matter presented in several previous ones. It begins with an argumentation showing that the first and second laws of thermodynamics are incompatible with one another if they are…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-21 Jean-Louis Tane

In this paper, we study the nonlinear electrodynamics in the framework of $f(T)$ gravity for FRW universe along with dust matter, magnetic and torsion contributions. We evaluate the equation of state and deceleration parameters to explore…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Sharif , Shamaila Rani

We study the validity of the generalized second law (GSL) of gravitational thermodynamics in a non-flat FRW universe containing the interacting in $f(T)$ gravity. We consider that the boundary of the universe to be confined by the dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Ramon Herrera

Late-time cosmic acceleration has motivated the exploration of various extensions of general relativity, among which $f(Q,\mathcal{T})$ gravity, based on the non-metricity scalar $Q$ and the trace of the energy--momentum tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Anirudh Pradhan , A. Husain , M. Zeyauddin , S. H. Shekh

In the scientific and engineering literature, the second law of thermodynamics is expressed in terms of the behavior of entropy in reversible and irreversible processes. According to the prevailing statistical mechanics interpretation the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elias P. Gyftopoulos , Gian Paolo Beretta

The second law of thermodynamics is discussed and reformulated from a quantum information theoretic perspective for open quantum systems using relative entropy. Specifically, the relative entropy of a quantum state with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Neil Dowling , Stefan Floerchinger , Tobias Haas

We examine the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics in a non-flat universe in the presence of viscous dark energy. At first we assume that the universe filled only with viscous dark energy. Then, we extend our study to…

General Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 M. R. Setare , A. Sheykhi

We review our approach to the second law of thermodynamics, viewed as a theorem asserting the growth of the mean (Gibbs-von Neumann) entropy of quantum spin systems undergoing automorphic (unitary) adiabatic transformations. Non-automorphic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Walter F. Wreszinski

The generalized second law of gravitational thermodynamics is applied to the present era of accelerated expansion of the Universe. In spite of the fact that the entropy of matter and relic gravitational waves inside the event horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 German Izquierdo , Diego Pavon

I use cosmology examples to illustrate that the second law of thermodynamics is not old and tired, but alive and kicking, continuing to stimulate interesting research on really big puzzles. The question "Why is the entropy so low?" (despite…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Max Tegmark

We give a short review of the recent developments of entropic cosmology based on two thermodynamic laws of the apparent horizon, namely the first and the second laws of thermodynamics. The first law essentially provides the change of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Tanmoy Paul

The second law of thermodynamics constitutes a fundamental principle of physics, precluding the existence of perpetual motion machines and providing a natural definition of the arrow of time. Its scope extends across virtually all areas of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Alejandro Corichi , Omar Gallegos

We investigate the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics, applying Barrow entropy for the horizon entropy. The former arises from the fact that the black-hole surface may be deformed due to quantum-gravitational effects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-16 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Spyros Basilakos

We investigate the validity of the generalized second law in irreversible thermodynamics in a non-flat FRW universe containing the interacting dark energy with cold dark matter. The boundary of the universe is assumed to be enclosed by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-26 K. Karami , S. Ghaffari

Homogeneous and isotropic, nonsingular, bouncing world models are designed to evade the initial singularity at the beginning of the cosmic expansion. Here, we study the thermodynamics of the subset of these models governed by general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-09 Pedro C. Ferreira , Diego Pavon

We investigate the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics on the $(n-1)$-dimensional brane embedded in the $(n+1)$-dimensional bulk. We examine the evolution of the apparent horizon entropy extracted through relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Ahmad Sheykhi , Bin Wang

We present a study of the generalized second law of thermodynamics in the scope of the f(R,T) theory of gravity, with R and T representing the Ricci scalar and trace of the energy-momentum tensor, respectively. From the energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 D. Momeni , P. H. R. S. Moraes , R. Myrzakulov

We study the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in $f(T)$ cosmology. We consider the universe as a closed bounded system filled with $n$ component fluids in the thermal equilibrium with the cosmological boundary. We use two…

General Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Kazuharu Bamba , Mubasher Jamil , D. Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

A major part of the many thermally driven processes in our natural environment as well as in engineering solutions of Carnot-type machinery is based on the second law of thermodynamics (or principle of entropy increase). An interesting link…

General Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Hans R. Moser