Local versus global thermal states: Correlations and the existence of local temperatures

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

Volumn 70, Issue 6 2, 2004, Pages

  Hartmann, Michael ^a   Mahler, Günter ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

BOLTZMANN CONSTANTS; CANONICAL DENSITY MATRICES; DEBYE TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 37649031258     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.066148     Document Type: Article

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