Quantum thermodynamics: A nonequilibrium green's function approach

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Esposito, Massimiliano ^a   Ochoa, Maicol A ^b   Galperin, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; NONEQUILIBRIUM THEORY; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; QUANTUM THERMODYNAMICS; REVERSIBLE TRANSFORMATION; STOCHASTIC THERMODYNAMICS; WEAK-COUPLING LIMITS;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84924134520     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.080602     Document Type: Article

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