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On Boltzmann's genius and thermodynamics
Elias P. Gyftopoulos
A recent essay [1] reminds us of how richly Boltzmann deserves to be admiringly commemorated for the originality of his ideas on the occasion of his 150th birthday. Without any dou…
Remarks on Our Understanding of Quantum Mechanics
Elias P. Gyftopoulos
Interpretations of key concepts, such as uncertainty relations, kinetic energy, value of an observable, probability distributions, the projection or collapse of a wave function pos…
Quantum Limits in Nanomechanical Systems
Elias P. Gyftopoulos
In two articles, the authors claim that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle limits the precision of simultaneous measurements of the position and velocity of a particle and refer…
Quantum Coherence Engines
Elias P. Gyftopoulos
In a report published in Science, Scully et al propose to generate "phaseonium", and "extract work from a single heat bath via vanishing coherence" [1]. On the basis of the laws of…
Comments on Extraction of Work from a Single Thermal Bath in the Quantum Regime
Elias P. Gyftopoulos, Michael R. von Spakovsky
In a PRL [1], the authors claim to show that "the Clausius inequality can be violated, and that it is even possible to extract work from a thermal bath by cyclic variations of a pa…
Comments on Violations of the Second Law
Elias P. Gyftopoulos
The authors of Ref. [1] claim to have experimental verification of violations of the second law of thermodynamics based on the assertions: (i) "for large systems and over long time…