Generalized Jarzynski's equality in inhomogeneous Markov chains

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ge, Hao ^a   Qian, Min ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 34249889299     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2722561     Document Type: Article

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