Quantum approach to a derivation of the second law of thermodynamics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1927-1930

  Gemmer, Jochen ^a   Otte, Alexander ^a   Mahler, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; GASES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; HILBERT SPACE; NEUMANN ENTROPY; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 6644223162     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1927     Document Type: Article

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