How small can thermal machines be? the smallest possible refrigerator

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Linden, Noah ^a   Popescu, Sandu ^a   Skrzypczyk, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ZERO; EXTERNAL SOURCES; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR INTERACTIONS; QUTRITS; THERMAL MACHINES;

REFRIGERATORS;

EID: 77957132628     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.130401     Document Type: Article

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