Deterministic motion of the controversial piston in the thermodynamic limit

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 669-701

  Gruber, Christian ^a   Pache, Séverine ^a   Lesne, Annick ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Adiabatic; Damping; Equilibrium; Liouville equation; Piston

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036093126     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015786125914     Document Type: Article

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