No-go theorem for ground state cooling given initial system-thermal bath factorization

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wu, Lian Ao ^a   Segal, Dvira ^b   Brumer, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84877732900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01824     Document Type: Article

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