Quantum four-stroke heat engine: Thermodynamic observables in a model with intrinsic friction

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1 2, 2003, Pages 161011-161018

  Feldmann, Tova ^a   Kosloff, Ronnie ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FRICTION; HAMILTONIANS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM THEORY;

INTRINSIC FRICTION;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 10944249489     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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