Quantum bath refrigeration towards absolute zero: Challenging the unattainability principle

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Kolar M ^a   Gelbwaser Klimovsky, D ^b   Alicki, R ^b,c   Kurizki, G ^b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ZERO; COOLING RATES; DISORDERED MEDIA; FERROMAGNETS; FRACTONS; MAGNONS; MINIMAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE SCALING; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

PHYSICS;

EID: 84865607403     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.090601     Document Type: Article

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