Insights into the second law of thermodynamics from anisotropic gas-surface interactions

DOI10.1007/S10701-007-9167-ZMaRDI QIDQ2473334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609398

zbMATH Keywords

gas-surface interactionsmolecular dynamicsreduced dimensionalitysecond lawsolid-gas interfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05)

Abstract: Thermodynamic implications of anisotropic gas-surface interactions in a closed molecular flow cavity are examined. Anisotropy at the microscopic scale, such as might be caused by reduced-dimensionality surfaces, is shown to lead to reversibility at the macroscopic scale. The possibility of a self-sustaining nonequilibrium stationary state induced by surface anisotropy is demonstrated that simultaneously satisfies flux balance, conservation of momentum, and conservation of energy. Conversely, it is also shown that the second law of thermodynamics prohibits anisotropic gas-surface interactions in "equilibrium", even for reduced dimensionality surfaces. This is particularly startling because reduced dimensionality surfaces are known to exhibit a plethora of anisotropic properties. That gas-surface interactions would be excluded from these anisotropic properties is completely counterintuitive from a causality perspective. These results provide intriguing insights into the second law of thermodynamics and its relation to gas-surface interaction physics.

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