Probability distribution of work done on a two-level system during a nonequilibrium isothermal process

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

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Chvosta, Petr ^a   Reineker, Peter ^b   Schulz, Michael ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTHERMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; NONEQUILIBRIUM ISOTHERMAL PROCESS; NONEQUILIBRIUM REGIME; SYSTEM EVOLUTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34247607683     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.041124     Document Type: Article

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