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A thought construction of working perpetuum mobile of the second kind

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The previously published model of the isothermal Maxwell demon as one of models of open quantum systems endowed with the faculty of selforganization is reconstructed here. It describes an open quantum system interacting with a single thermodynamic bath but otherwise not aided from outside. Its activity is given by the standard linear Liouville equation for the system and bath. Owing to its selforganization property, the model then yields cyclic conversion of heat from the bath into mechanical work without compensation. Hence, it provides an explicit thought construction of perpetuum mobile of the second kind, contradicting thus the Thomson formulation of the second law of thermodynamics. No approximation is involved as a special scaling procedure is used which makes the employed kinetic equations exact.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Physics of Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16, Praha 2, Czech Republic

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Čápek, V., Bok, J. A thought construction of working perpetuum mobile of the second kind. Czech J Phys 49, 1645–1652 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022883701920

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