scholarly journals Principle of Unattainability of absolute zero temperature, the Third Law of Thermodynamics, and projective quantum measurements

2019 ◽  
Vol 383 (27) ◽  
pp. 125848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tien D. Kieu
Author(s):  
Dennis Sherwood ◽  
Paul Dalby

The Third Law was introduced in Chapter 9; this chapter develops the Third Law more fully, introducing absolute entropies, and examining how adiabatic demagnetisation can be used to approach the absolute zero of temperature.


1987 ◽  
Vol 01 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACEK MIĘKISZ ◽  
CHARLES RADIN

We consider a very general class of discrete classical one dimensional statistical mechanical models and prove that generic finite range interactions have crystalline zero temperature ensembles, and in particular satisfy the third law of thermodynamics.


2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 739-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. BELGIORNO ◽  
M. MARTELLINI

We discuss in the framework of black hole thermodynamics some aspects relative to the third law in the case of black holes of the Kerr–Newman family. In the light of the standard proof of the equivalence between the unattainability of the zero temperature and the entropic version of the third law it is remarked that the unattainability has a special character in black hole thermodynamics. Also the zero temperature limit which obtained in the case of very massive black holes is discussed and it is shown that a violation of the entropic version in the charged case occurs. The violation of the Bekenstein–Hawking law in favour of zero entropy SE=0 in the case of extremal black holes is suggested as a natural solution for a possible violation of the second law of thermodynamics. Thermostatic arguments in support of the unattainability are explored, and SE=0 for extremal black holes is shown to be again a viable solution. The third law of black hole dynamics by W. Israel is then interpreted as a further strong corroboration to the picture of a discontinuity between extremal states and non-extremal ones.


2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 1850123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Won Sang Chung ◽  
Hassan Hassanabadi

In this paper, the nonzero minimum temperature is considered based on the third law of thermodynamics and existence of the minimal momentum. From the assumption of nonzero positive minimum temperature in nature, we deform the definitions of some thermodynamical quantities and investigate nonzero minimum temperature correction to the well-known thermodynamical problems.


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. 539-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLÁUDIO NASSIF

This paper aims to introduce a new principle of symmetry in the flat space–time by means of the elimination of the classical idea of rest, and by including a universal minimum limit of speed in the quantum world. Such a limit, unattainable by the particles, represents a preferred inertial reference frame associated with a universal background field that breaks Lorentz symmetry. So there emerges a new relativistic dynamics where a minimum speed forms an inferior energy barrier. One of the interesting implications of the existence of such a minimum speed is that it prevents the absolute zero temperature for an ultracold gas, according to the third law of thermodynamics. So we will be able to provide a fundamental dynamical explanation for the third law by means of a connection between such a phenomenological law and the new relativistic dynamics with a minimum speed.


Author(s):  
Robert H. Swendsen

The Nernst postulate, or Third Law of Thermodynamics, is derived from quantum statistical mechanics. It states, ‘The entropy of a thermodynamic system goes to a constant as the temperature goes to zero.’ The main consequences are that specific heat and compressibility goes to zero as temperature goes to zero. Both are demonstrated. It is shown that, both with and without the Nernst postulate, zero temperature is not experimentally attainable. Gases are usually well behaved in this respect, but we all know from experience that molecules of H2O can clump together, form drops, and rain on us.


1991 ◽  
Vol 250 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isao Okamoto ◽  
Osamu Kaburaki

Abstract At first the thermodynamic and evolutionary properties of Kerr black holes are clarified using the M–J plane, where M is the hole’s mass and J is its angular momentum. In this plane Schwarzschild black holes with h = 0 are distributed along the M-axis and extreme Kerr holes with h = 1 lie on the line J = M2, where $h \equiv J/4S$ is a non-dimensional parameter and S is the entropy. Taking into account possible accretion processes, we then derive the condition under which the third law of black-hole thermodynamics for Kerr holes is not violated. The condition is given in the form of as $\alpha \ge 1$, where the rate of change of a hole’s state, dh/dM, is proportional to $(1-h)^\alpha$ in the neighbourhood of $h \simeq 1$. If the rate is proportional to the vanishing surface gravity, gH, with which the hole has to accrete matter and angular momentum, α is given by $\alpha= 1+2/C$, where $dh/dM=Cg_\text H=C(1-h^2)/4M$, and C is a proportionality constant. In this case M, J and S diverge to infinity as a power law for $h \to 1$, and therefore no Kerr holes can reach the extreme Kerr state with the absolute zero temperature by accreting finite amounts of mass and angular momentum.


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