Non-local observables and lightcone-averaging in relativistic thermodynamics

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 741-747

  Dunkel, Jörn ^a   Hänggi, Peter ^b   Hilbert, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

RELATIVITY;

GENERAL RELATIVITY; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; MANY BODY; RELATIVISTIC SYSTEMS; RELATIVISTIC THERMODYNAMICS; SPACETIME; THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES; THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70350128242     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1395     Document Type: Article

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