A study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) details a "Gambling Carnot Engine" that researchers report can attain 100% efficiency while also improving power generation.
The researchers present a feedback-controlled heat engine that strategically exploits thermal fluctuations at the microscopic scale, opening new pathways for energy harvesting in nanoscale devices.
The research, led by Dr. Édgar Roldán from the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, challenges two centuries of thermodynamic understanding by proposing a method to surpass what was once considered an inviolable limit in physics: the Carnot efficiency bound.
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