TY - GEN
T1 - Discussion on "frontiers of the second law"
AU - Lloyd, Seth
AU - Bejan, Adrian
AU - Bennett, Charles
AU - Beretta, Gian Paolo
AU - Butler, Howard
AU - Gordon, Lyndsay
AU - Grmela, Miroslav
AU - Gyftopoulos, Elias P.
AU - Hatsopoulos, George N.
AU - Jou, David
AU - Kjelstrup, Signe
AU - Lior, Noam
AU - Miller, Sam
AU - Rubi, Miguel
AU - Schneider, Eric D.
AU - Sekulic, Dusan P.
AU - Zhang, Zhuomin
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This article reports an open discussion that took place during the Keenan Symposium "Meeting the Entropy Challenge" (held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 4, 2007) following the short presentations - each reported as a separate article in the present, volume - by Adrian Bejan, Bjarne Andresen, Miguel Rubi, Signe Kjelstrup, David Jou, Miroslav Grmela, Lyndsay Gordon, and Eric Schneider. All panelists and the audience were asked to address the following questions Is the second law relevant when we trap single ions, prepare, manipulate and measure single photons, excite single atoms, induce spin echoes, measure quantum entanglement? Is it possible or impossible to build Maxwell demons that beat the second law by exploiting fluctuations? Is the maximum entropy generation principle capable of unifying nonequilibrium molecular dynamics, chemical kinetics, nonlocal and nonequilibrium. rheology, biological systems, natural structures, and cosmological evolution? Research in quantum computation and quantum information has raised many fundamental questions about the foundations of quantum theory. Are any of these questions related to the second law?
AB - This article reports an open discussion that took place during the Keenan Symposium "Meeting the Entropy Challenge" (held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 4, 2007) following the short presentations - each reported as a separate article in the present, volume - by Adrian Bejan, Bjarne Andresen, Miguel Rubi, Signe Kjelstrup, David Jou, Miroslav Grmela, Lyndsay Gordon, and Eric Schneider. All panelists and the audience were asked to address the following questions Is the second law relevant when we trap single ions, prepare, manipulate and measure single photons, excite single atoms, induce spin echoes, measure quantum entanglement? Is it possible or impossible to build Maxwell demons that beat the second law by exploiting fluctuations? Is the maximum entropy generation principle capable of unifying nonequilibrium molecular dynamics, chemical kinetics, nonlocal and nonequilibrium. rheology, biological systems, natural structures, and cosmological evolution? Research in quantum computation and quantum information has raised many fundamental questions about the foundations of quantum theory. Are any of these questions related to the second law?
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U2 - 10.1063/1.2979039
DO - 10.1063/1.2979039
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52249105071
SN - 9780735405578
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 253
EP - 261
BT - Meeting the Entropy Challenge - An International Thermodynamics Symposium in Honor and Memory of Professor Joseph H. Keenan
T2 - Meeting the Entropy Challenge - International Thermodynamics Symposium. In Honor and Memory of Professor Joseph H. Keenan
Y2 - 4 October 2007 through 5 October 2007
ER -