Comment on "Consistent thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures"
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In this comment we argue that negative absolute temperatures are a well-established concept for systems with bounded spectra. They are not only consistent with thermodynamics, but are even unavoidable for a consistent description of the thermal equilibrium of inverted populations.
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Fluctuation relations and strong inequalities for thermally isolated systems
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