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cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 2 cited
Second law of thermodynamics: Spontaneous cold-to-hot heat transfer in a nonchaotic medium
Yu Qiao, Zhaoru Shang
It has long been known that, fundamentally different from a large body of rarefied gas, when a Knudsen gas is immersed in a thermal bath, it may never reach thermal equilibrium. Th…
cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 5 cited
On the second law of thermodynamics: An ideal-gas flow spontaneously induced by a locally nonchaotic energy barrier
Yu Qiao, Zhaoru Shang
People are well aware that, inherently, certain small-scale nonchaotic particle movements are not governed by thermodynamics. Usually, such phenomena are studied by kinetic theory…
cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 7 cited
Producing Useful Work in a Cycle by Absorbing Heat from a Single Thermal Reservoir: An Investigation on a Locally Nonchaotic Energy Barrier
Yu Qiao, Zhaoru Shang
In the current research, we investigate the concept of spontaneously nonequilibrium dimension (SND), and show that a SND-based system can break the second law of thermodynamics. Th…