Experimental test of the fluctuation theorem for a driven two-level system with time-dependent rates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 18, 2005, Pages

  Schuler, S ^a   Speck, T ^a   Tietz, C ^a   Wrachtrup, J ^a   Seifert, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY FLUCTUATIONS; FLUCTUATION THEOREM;

DIAMONDS; ENTROPY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LASER BEAMS; THEOREM PROVING; THERMAL NOISE;

DEFECTS;

EID: 27144474506     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.180602     Document Type: Article

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