A model of an open microscopic quantum system interacting with an isothermal bath and able to bind actively particles from a reservoir to their even excited bound states at the cost of the bath energy is presented. The binding (potentially important in, e.g., chain reactions-hence "sewing") is due to dynamic processes in a central part of the system accompanying the particle transfer. The outcome thus challenges the second law of thermodynamics. [References: 12]
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