Quantum thermodynamic cycles and quantum heat engines

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

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Quan, H T ^a,b   Liu, Yu Xi ^a,c   Sun, C P ^a,b   Nori, Franco ^a,d  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OTTO CYCLE; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ISOCHORIC PROCESSES; QUANTUM THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 34548814780     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031105     Document Type: Article

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