Minimal work principle: Proof and counterexamples

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

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Allahverdyan, A E ^a,b   Nieuwenhuizen, Th M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC ENERGY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM SYSTEMS; THERMAL BATH;

ENTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 41349102113     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046107     Document Type: Article

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