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Nature Physics 4, 444 - 446 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys979
Subject Categories: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Atomic and molecular physics | Condensed-matter physics
Thermodynamics: Limited adiabaticity
Wilhelm Zwerger1
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Wilhelm Zwerger is in the Physikdepartment, Technische Universität M¨nchen, James Franck Stra
e 85748 Garching, Germany.
e-mail: zwerger@ph.tum.de
Abstract
The standard assumption in thermodynamics that a sufficiently slow change of external parameters will generate no entropy turns out to be wrong for low-dimensional, gapless systems. Its breakdown may be tested with ultracold gases.
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