Breaking the Carnot limit without violating the second law: A thermodynamic analysis of off-resonant quantum light generation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Boukobza, E ^a   Ritsch, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC RESONANCES; CRITICAL FREQUENCIES; LIGHT GENERATION; QUANTUM COUNTERPART; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; THERMO DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICAL ANALYSIS; THREE LEVEL ATOMS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; THERMODYNAMICS;

THERMOANALYSIS;

EID: 84880612171     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.063845     Document Type: Article

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