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Residual Entropy of Glasses and the Third Law Expression
Koun Shirai
The third law of thermodynamics dictates that the entropy of materials becomes zero as temperature () approaches zero. Contrarily, glass and other similar materials exhibit nonz…
A thermodynamic description of the glass state and its application to glass transition
Koun Shirai
Many properties of solids such as the glass state are commonly treated as nonequilibrium phenomena, which involve many conceptual difficulties. However, few studies have addressed…
State Variables and Constraints in Thermodynamics of Solids and Their Implications
Koun Shirai
There is a common view in thermodynamics that the behavior of a macroscopic system can be described by only a few state variables. Although this is true for many cases, it is uncle…
On the unattainability of absolute zero temperature and the Nernst heat theorem
Koun Shirai
It is sometimes argued that the unattainability of zero temperature is a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics. Historically, the independence of the unattainability of z…
Residual Entropy and Refinement of the Third-Law Expression
Koun Shirai
Although the third law of thermodynamics was established almost a century ago, it is not yet universally considered to be a fundamental law of physics. A major problem is that ther…