Nonlinear heat equations

Reports on Mathematical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 557-564

  Streater, R F ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Detailed balance; Diffusion; Driven systems; Entropy; Free energy; Heat equation; Nonequilibrium thermodynamics; Stochastic differential equation; Two level atom

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031539306     PISSN: 00344877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0034-4877(97)85905-8     Document Type: Article

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