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SUMMARY:A derivation of the third law of thermodynamics - Lluis Masanes\, 
 UCL
DTSTART:20160218T141500Z
DTEND:20160218T151500Z
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CONTACT:Steve Brierley
DESCRIPTION:In the first part of the talk I will review the informational 
 approach to thermodynamics and I will present a new second law that takes 
 the form of an equality instead of an inequality. From this equality one c
 an derive the standard second law inequality plus an additional infinite f
 amily of inequalities\, which provide constraints on the work fluctuations
 . In the second part of the talk I will present a derivation of the third 
 law of thermodynamics\, which shows the impossibility of cooling matter to
  absolute zero\, and quantifies the resources that are necessary to achiev
 e any given temperature. This result also implies the impossibility of exa
 ct information erasure and quantifies the necessary resources for achievin
 g any error. (This talk is based on\narXiv:1601.05799 and arXiv:1412.3828.
 )\n
LOCATION:MR4\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambr
 idge
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