Classical and quantum fluctuation theorems for heat exchange

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Jarzynski, Christopher ^a   Wójcik, Daniel K ^b,c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; THEOREM PROVING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EXCHANGE FLUCTUATION THEOREM (XFT); FLUCTUATION THEOREM (FT); HEAT EXCHANGE; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 3242655723     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.230602     Document Type: Article

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