Operational approach to fluctuations of thermodynamic variables in finite quantum systems

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

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Jahnke, T ^a   Lanery S ^a   Mahler, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONCRETE MODEL; CORRECTION TERMS; FINITE QUANTUM SYSTEMS; FOURTH-ORDER; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INTENSIVE PARAMETERS; QUANTUM APPROACH; QUANTUM MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM THERMODYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78751483504     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.011109     Document Type: Article

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