Autonomous quantum thermodynamic machines

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

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Tonner, Friedemann ^a   Mahler, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNOT CYCLE; COUPLED CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

QUANTUM COMPUTER; THERMAL BATHS; THERMODYNAMIC MACHINES;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 33244496162     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.066118     Document Type: Article

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