Maxwell’s demon and the second law of thermodynamics |
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| Authors: | Richard L. Liboff |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Schools of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Cornell University, 14853 Ithaca, New York |
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| Abstract: | An idealized, two-dimensional Maxwell demon is described which incorporates an irreversible process. The vertex of the device acts as a purely mechanical ‘trap door’. This idealized mechanism is found to generate a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. These results indicate that the second law of thermodynamics is not valid in general for idealized, irreversible systems. |
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| Keywords: | irreversibility second law Maxwell demon entropy |
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