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View SchemaEnergy Conversion of Fully Random Thermal Relaxation Times
| Authors | François Barriquand |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0507184 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507184 |
| Journal | Revue des Questions Scientifiques 2005, 176 (1): 59-74 (French version) |
Abstract
Thermodynamic random processes in thermal systems are generally associated with one or several relaxation times, the inverse of which are formally homogeneous with energy. Here, we show in a precise way that the periodic modification of relaxation times during temperature-constant thermodynamic cycles can be thermodynamically beneficiary to the operator. This result holds as long as the operator who adjusts relaxation times does not attempt to control the randomness associated with relaxation times itself as a Maxwell 'demon' would do. Indirectly, our result also shows that thermal randomness appears satisfactorily described within a conventional quantum-statistical framework, and that the attempts advocated notably by Ilya Prigogine to go beyond a Hilbert space description of quantum statistics do not seem justified - at least according to the present state of our knowledge. Fundamental interpretation of randomness, either thermal or quantum mechanical, is briefly discussed.
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