Effects of a thermal reservoir on variational functions in open systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Jakob, Matthias ^a   Stenholm, Stig ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANO ENTROPY; NON-HERMITIAN OPERATORS; RATE EQUATIONS; THERMAL RESERVOIR;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENTROPY; HAMILTONIANS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTATS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 69649108557     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.012104     Document Type: Review

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