Extraction of work from a single thermal bath in the quantum regime

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1799-1802

  Allahverdyan, A E ^a,b,d   Nieuwenhuizen, Th M ^c  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

CLAUSIUS INEQUALITY; GIBBS DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL BATH;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034726285     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1799     Document Type: Article

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