The Problem of Engines in Statistical Physics

Engines are open systems that can generate work cyclically at the expense of an external disequilibrium. They are ubiquitous in nature and technology, but the course of mathematical physics over the last 300 years has tended to make their dynamics in time a theoretical blind spot. This has hampered...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alicki, Robert, Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, David, Jenkins, Alejandro
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136693.2