Reply to ``Comment on `Similarity between quantum mechanics and thermodynamics: Entropy, temperature, and Carnot cycle' ''

Sumiyoshi Abe
Phys. Rev. E 91, 056102 – Published 26 May 2015

Abstract

In their Comment on the paper [Abe and Okuyama, Phys. Rev. E 83, 021121 (2011)], González-Díaz and Díaz-Solórzano discuss that the initial state of the quantum-mechanical analog of the Carnot cycle should be not in a pure state but in a mixed state due to a projective measurement of the system energy. Here, first the Comment is shown to miss the point. Then, second, multiple projective measurements are discussed as a generalization of the Comment, although they are not relevant to the work commented.

  • Received 25 April 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.056102

©2015 American Physical Society

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Sumiyoshi Abe

  • Department of Physical Engineering, Mie University, Mie 514-8507, Japanand Institute of Physics, Kazan Federal University, Kazan 420008, Russia

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Comment on “Similarity between quantum mechanics and thermodynamics: Entropy, temperature, and Carnot cycle”

L. A. González-Díaz and S. Díaz-Solórzano
Phys. Rev. E 91, 056101 (2015)

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Vol. 91, Iss. 5 — May 2015

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