Quantum mechanical model of a plasma system: a challenge to the second law of thermodynamics

V. Čápek and D.P. Sheehan

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 304, issue 3, 461-479

Abstract: Within the framework of the theory of open quantum systems, a rigorous model is developed and applied to a previously proposed and experimentally corroborated plasma system that challenges the second law of thermodynamics (Sheehan, Phys. Plasmas 2 (1995) 1893; J. Scient. Explor. 12 (1998) 303). The results of the present model support the findings of the earlier challenge.

Keywords: 2nd law challenge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00570-2

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