Projektnummer

0052062

Zusammenfassung

This Armenian-German project aims at a better understanding how the concepts, relations, and bounds of thermodynamics apply to mesoscopic systems. Furthermore, mutual aspects of statistical thermodynamics and information science will be explored. While classical thermodynamics concentrates on energy transformation, storage and utilization by macroscopic machines, it became obvious that machines on the micro and nanoscale are in addition subject to quantum theory. Thus, the theoretical basis for work extraction with the help of a finite engine, energy storage in nanoscale batteries, ene...