Quantum thermodynamics of general quantum processes

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Binder, Felix ^a   Vinjanampathy, Sai ^b   Modi, Kavan ^c   Goold, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARBITRARY QUANTUM STATE; COMPLETELY POSITIVE; FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL LAWS; QUANTUM EVOLUTION; QUANTUM THERMODYNAMICS; WORK EXTRACTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84924787538     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.032119     Document Type: Article

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