Fluctuation, dissipation and the arrow of time

Entropy

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2024-2035

  Campisi, Michele ^a   Hänggi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entropy; Minus first law; Second law; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855413200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e13122024     Document Type: Article

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