Extracting Work from a Single Thermal Bath via Quantum Negentropy

Marlan O. Scully
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 220601 – Published 12 November 2001
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Abstract

Classical heat engines produce work by operating between a high temperature energy source and a low temperature entropy sink. The present quantum heat engine has no cooler reservoir acting as a sink of entropy but has instead an internal reservoir of negentropy which allows extraction of work from one thermal bath. The process is attended by constantly increasing entropy and does not violate the second law of thermodynamics.

  • Received 5 March 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.220601

©2001 American Physical Society

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Marlan O. Scully

  • Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843and Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany

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Vol. 87, Iss. 22 — 26 November 2001

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