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Towards a thermodynamic assessment of transition plateaus

Etienne Gaviot
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Ronan Morice
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Bruno Bêche

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This second part of the work is devoted to the thermodynamic implications of the results presented in the preceding paper, as heat flow meters (HFMs) were installed within a thermometric fixed-point cell operated with indium. Then, simultaneous measurements of both temperature and heat flow allow us to pinpoint the specific boundaries (solidus and melt-off points) of a given transition plateau. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first experimental illustration being reported on how to consider a plateau as a specific thermodynamic regime marked with a minimum amount of generated entropy in a metrological fixed-point cell. As a result, a significant relationship linking the boundaries of the plateau and the melting temperature of the material studied is presented. In order to obtain a quantitative understanding of the quality of a given transition process, straightforward thermodynamic considerations allow us to consider both theoretically and experimentally an adimensional parameter defined as the ratio of the entropy generation over the entropy change.

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hal-00659161 , version 1 (12-01-2012)

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Etienne Gaviot, Guillaume Failleau, Ronan Morice, Lionel Camberlein, Frédéric Polet, et al.. Towards a thermodynamic assessment of transition plateaus. Metrologia, 2010, 47 (4), pp.357-362. ⟨10.1088/0026-1394/47/4/002⟩. ⟨hal-00659161⟩
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