Locality of Temperature

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kliesch, M ^a   Gogolin, C ^a   Kastoryano, M J ^a   Riera, A ^a,b   Eisert, J ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics; Quantum physics; Statistical physics

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; LOCAL EXPECTATIONS; PERTURBATION FORMULAE; QUANTUM MODELS; QUANTUM PHYSICS; SHORT RANGE INTERACTIONS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; THERMAL STATE;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 84905436644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031019     Document Type: Article

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