Comment on "Extraction of work from a single thermal bath in the quantum regime"
| dc.creator | Tasaki, Hal | |
| dc.date | 2000-11-07 | |
| dc.date | 2000-11-21 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:39:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:39:15Z | |
| dc.description | Recently Allahverdyan and Nieuwenhuizen (cond-mat/0006404) argued that the second law of thermodynamics may be violated in a quantum system as a "consequence of quantum coherence in the presence of the slightly off-equilibrium nature of the bath." By using a standard result about relative entropy, we prove rigorously that the second law is never violated (and, in particular, a perpetual motion of the second kind can never be realized) in quantum systems no matter how strong ``quantum coherence'' is or no matter how far one goes from equilibrium. | |
| dc.description | 3 pages, made minor changes to make the points of the Comment clearer | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011099 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011099 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/16984 | |
| dc.subject | Statistical Mechanics | |
| dc.title | Comment on "Extraction of work from a single thermal bath in the quantum regime" | |
| dc.type | text |