Heat-to-Work Conversion by Exploiting Full or Partial Correlations of Quantum Particles

International Journal of Theoretical Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3844-3851

  Levitin, Lev B ^a   Toffoli, Tommaso ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Entropy defect; Heat to work conversion; Information and work; Partial correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155133971     PISSN: 00207748     EISSN: 15729575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10773-011-0886-8     Document Type: Article

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