caa a22 4500 378901494 CHVBK 20180305123519.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/JNETDY.2004.060 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/JNETDY.2004.060 About some current frontiers of the second law [Elektronische Daten] [David Jou, José Casas-Vázquez] This paper provides a concise overview of three current and very active frontiers of the second law of thermodynamics; namely, non-equilibrium macroscopic systems, mesoscopic systems, and systems with quantum correlations. Rather than providing an extensive review of this very wide topic, we sketch some views on the basic ideas of several current explorations of the limits of the second law. Furthermore, we emphasise the relevance of a suitable definition of temperature in non-equilibrium situations to avoid some apparent paradoxes arising in Carnot cycles with driven heat reservoirs with quantum correlations. © Walter de Gruyter Thermodynamics & statistical physics nationallicence Heat transfer processes nationallicence Jou David Departament de Física, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain. aut Casas-Vázquez José Departament de Física, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain. aut Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Walter de Gruyter 29/4(2004-12-01), 345-357 0340-0204 29:4<345 2004 29 jnet https://doi.org/10.1515/JNETDY.2004.060 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/JNETDY.2004.060 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jou David Departament de Física, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Casas-Vázquez José Departament de Física, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Walter de Gruyter 29/4(2004-12-01), 345-357 0340-0204 29:4<345 2004 29 jnet CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter