On the speed of fluctuations around thermodynamic equilibrium

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Linden, Noah ^a   Popescu, Sandu ^a   Short, Anthony J ^b   Winter, Andreas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; QUANTUM SYSTEM; STATIC STATE; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77953051875     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/5/055021     Document Type: Article

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