Entropy production and the generalised second law of black hole thermodynamics

The generalised second law of black hole thermodynamics states that the sum of a black hole’s entropy and the entropy of all matter outside the black hole cannot decrease with time. The violation of the generalised second law via the process in which a distant observer extracts work by lowering a bo...

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Main Authors: Iason A Sofos, Sara Kanzi, Benjamin T H Varcoe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad69b8