Information and entropy in quantum brownian motion : TTThermodynamic entropy versus von neumann entropy

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1161-1174

  Hörhammer, Christian ^a   Büttner, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entropy; Information; Landauer principle; Quantum Brownian motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849141673     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-008-9640-x     Document Type: Article

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