Irreversible performance of a quantum harmonic heat engine

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rezek, Yair ^a   Kosloff, Ronnie ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HARMONIC GENERATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OTTO CYCLE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUANTUM THEORY;

NONCOMMUTABILITY; QUANTUM HARMONIC HEAT ENGINE; QUASISTATIC OPERATING CONDITIONS; THERMODYNAMICAL VARIABLES;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 33744771952     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/8/5/083     Document Type: Article

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