Time-symmetric fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Maes, Christian ^a   Van Wieren, Maarten H ^b  

^a Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica   (Belgium)

^b EURANDOM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR EQUATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

FLUCTUATION THEOREMS; NONEQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATES; SPACE-TIME ACTION; TIME REVERSAL;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 33745234793     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.240601     Document Type: Article

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