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Traditional thermodynamics and the Carnot cycle strictly limit the efficiency and operating conditions of heat engines. Based on the grand unified framework of "connectivity geometry," this paper proposes a disruptive energy extraction mechanism: the connectivity phase of the spin network at the fundamental level of spacetime itself constitutes a massive "geometric energy storage pool." Through an alternating electric field driving the interlayer sliding of a two-dimensional lattice, the system completes an adiabatic loop in parameter space. Utilizing the topological pumping (Thouless Pumping) effect and the Chern number jump, it converts ambient background energy into a macroscopic directed current in an isothermal environment without a temperature gradient. This paper introduces a new concept of "topological geometric entropy": the system sacrifices the topological entropy of parameter space in exchange for a local reduction in thermal entropy, while the total entropy remains non-decreasing. This not only profoundly extends condensed matter topological physics but also declares the end of the traditional Carnot heat engine paradigm.
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