Time-energy uncertainty principle for irreversible heat engines

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2019.0171MaRDI QIDQ4994575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rudolf Hanel, Petr Jizba

Publication date 20 June 2021

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01814

zbMATH Keywords

gas kineticsirreversible processesmathematical physicsstatistical mechanicsstatistical physicsthermodynamicsuncertainty relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

Abstract: Even though irreversibility is one of the major hallmarks of any real life process, an actual understanding of irreversible processes remains still mostly semiempirical. In this paper we formulate a thermodynamic uncertainty principle for irreversible heat engines operating with an ideal gas as a working medium. In particular, we show that the time needed to run through such an irreversible cycle multiplied by the irreversible work lost in the cycle, is bounded from below by an irreducible and process-dependent constant that has the dimension of an action. The constant in question depends on a typical scale of the process and becomes comparable to Planck's constant at the length scale of the order Bohr-radius, i.e., the scale that corresponds to the smallest distance on which the ideal gas paradigm realistically applies.

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