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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 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…
Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality: Are they Correctly Understood?
Elias P. Gyftopoulos
In a brief article [1], Seife refers to works by Einstein and Schroedinger and concludes that there is a relentless murmur of confusion underneath the chorus of praise for quantum…
Comments on testing the violation of the Clausius inequality in nanoscale electric circuits
Elias P. Gyftopoulos, Michael R. von Spakovsky
The correct laws of thermodynamics, either classical or quantum without probabilities of statistical quantum mechanics are valid for all systems, large or small, including systems…