Thermodynamics of projective quantum measurements

Physica Scripta

Volumn , Issue T151, 2012, Pages

  Erez, Noam ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIAL STATE; MAXWELL'S DEMON; MEAN ENERGY; MEASURING DEVICE; NET LOSS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; QUANTUM MEASUREMENT; THERMAL STATE; SELECTIVE MEASUREMENTS;

ENTROPY; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS; MEASUREMENTS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

MEASUREMENTS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84871241485     PISSN: 00318949     EISSN: 14024896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/2012/T151/014028     Document Type: Article

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