Radiation Entropy Bound from the Second Law of Thermodynamics

It has been suggested heuristically by Unruh and Wald, and independently by Page, that at given energy and volume, thermal radiation has the largest entropy. The suggestion leads to the corresponding universal bound on entropy of physical systems. Using a gedanken experiment we show that the bound f...

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Main Author: Itzhak Fouxon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-04-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/14/4/736/