Tuesday, February 19, 2013

1302.4392 (Armen E. Allahverdyan et al.)

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Armen E. Allahverdyan, Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Guenter Mahler
Results obtained recently in Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 120603 (2012) by Cleuren et al. apparently contradict to the third law of thermodynamics. We discuss a scenario for resolving this contradiction, and show that this scenario is pertinent for clarifying the general message of the third law.
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