Approach to thermal equilibrium of macroscopic quantum systems

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

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Goldstein, Sheldon ^a   Lebowitz, Joel L ^a   Mastrodonato, Christian ^b   Tumulka, Roderich ^a   Zanghi, Nino ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES; ENERGY EIGENSTATES; ENERGY SHELLS; ERGODIC THEOREM; INITIAL STATE VECTORS; MACRO-STATE; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM; STATE VECTOR; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 76649136961     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011109     Document Type: Article

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