Existence of temperature on the nanoscale

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Hartmann, Michael ^a,b   Mahler, Günter ^b   Hess, Ortwin ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROBABILITY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CANONICAL STATES; MATERIALS PROCESSING; QUANTUM SYSTEMS; SCANNING MICROSCOPY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19544362366     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.080402     Document Type: Article

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