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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

  1. Wilhelm Zwerger is in the Physikdepartment, Technische Universität M¨nchen, James Franck Stras zlige 85748 Garching, Germany.
    e-mail: zwerger@ph.tum.de


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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