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Note from end of article: it is not claimed to actually violate the laws of thermodynamics.
Right, because this result has been observed in other systems (notably nanocluster beams in vacuum). Phys Rev B and Phys Rev Letters Are good places to look.

The key to understanding is that this system can NOT be treated as a canonical ensemble--it is properly treated as an evaporative ensemble, so the results are even more counter-intuitive than the micro canonical ensemble.