TY - JOUR AU - Rodríguez Parrondo, Juan Manuel AU - Granger, Léo PY - 2015 DO - 10.1140/epjst/e2015-02432-9 SN - 1951-6355 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24128 T2 - European Physical Journal-Special Topics AB - Although there is not a complete "proof" of the second law of thermodynamics based on microscopic dynamics, two properties of Hamiltonian systems have been used to prove the impossibility of work extraction from a single thermal reservoir: Liouville's... LA - eng M2 - 865 PB - Springer Heidelberg KW - Symmetry-breaking KW - Thermodynamics KW - Information KW - Entropy KW - Energy. TI - Maxwell demons in phase space TY - journal article VL - 224 ER -