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A Nonconventional Scenario for Thermal Equilibrium

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A nonuniform superconducting loop poses a challenge to statistical mechanics: assuming thermal equilibrium and applying the accepted rules, we obtain that the heat flow does not vanish.

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Berger, J. A Nonconventional Scenario for Thermal Equilibrium. Found Phys 37, 1738–1743 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-007-9162-4

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