Specific heat anomalies of open quantum systems

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

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ingold, Gert Ludwig ^a,b   Hänggi, Peter ^a   Talkner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DENSITY OF STATE; HEAT BATH; MINIMAL MODEL; NEGATIVE VALUES; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SINGLE OSCILLATORS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CALORIMETRY; OPEN SYSTEMS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; STABILITY CRITERIA; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

SPECIFIC HEAT;

EID: 67650882996     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061105     Document Type: Article

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