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The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics

<!--HTML--><p>In my talk I raise the question on the fundamental limits to the size of thermal machines – refrigerators, heat pumps and work producing engines - and I will present the smallest possible ones. I will then discuss the issue of a possible complementarity between size and eff...

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Autor principal: Popescu, Sandu
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2314377
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Sumario:<!--HTML--><p>In my talk I raise the question on the fundamental limits to the size of thermal machines – refrigerators, heat pumps and work producing engines - and I will present the smallest possible ones. I will then discuss the issue of a possible complementarity between size and efficiency and show that even the smallest machines could be maximally efficient and I will also present a new point of view over what is work and what do thermal machines actually do. Finally I will present a completely new approach to the foundations of thermodynamics that follows from these results.</p>