Extracting work from a single heat bath via vanishing quantum coherence

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5608, 2003, Pages 862-864

  Scully, Marlan O ^a,b   Suhail Zubairy, M ^a,c   Agarwal, Girish S ^a,d   Walther, Herbert ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

QUANTUM CARNOT ENGINE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

PHYSICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; HEAT TRANSFER; LASER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION FIELD; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037423316     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078955     Document Type: Article

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