Fluctuation theorems: Work is not an observable

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

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Talkner, Peter ^a   Lutz, Eric ^a   Hänggi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CORRELATION METHODS; HAMILTONIANS; THEOREM PROVING;

CORRELATION FUNCTION; EXPONENTIAL WORK; JARZYNSKI WORK THEOREM; TIME ORDERED CORRELATION FUNCTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34347233502     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.050102     Document Type: Article

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