Tuesday, March 5, 2013

1303.0145 (Johannes Hoppenau et al.)

Carnot process with a single particle    [PDF]

Johannes Hoppenau, Markus Niemann, Andreas Engel
We determine the statistics of work in isothermal volume changes of a classical ideal gas consisting of a single particle. Combining our results with the findings of Lua and Grosberg [J. Chem. Phys. B 109, 6805 (2005)] on adiabatic expansions and compressions we then analyze the joint probability distribution of heat and work for a microscopic, non-equilibrium Carnot cycle and determine its efficiency at maximum power.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0145

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