Inadequacy of von neumann entropy for characterizing extractable work

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dahlsten, Oscar C O ^a,b,c   Renner, Renato ^a   Rieper, Elisabeth ^c   Vedral, Vlatko ^b,c,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED SYSTEMS; ENTROPY APPROACH; NEUMANN ENTROPY; VON NEUMANN ENTROPY;

ENTROPY;

EID: 79956320742     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/5/053015     Document Type: Article

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