Local temperature in quantum thermal states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  García Saez, Artur ^a   Ferraro, Alessandro ^a   Acín, Antonio ^a,b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK SIZES; CLASSICAL BEHAVIOR; CLASSICAL SYSTEMS; ENERGY-CONSTRAINED; FIGURE OF MERIT; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HIGH FIDELITY; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; QUANTUM FEATURES; QUANTUM FIDELITY; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM SPIN; QUANTUM SYSTEM; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; THERMAL STATE; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

HILBERT SPACES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 66349123840     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.052340     Document Type: Article

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