Work, heat and entropy production in bipartite quantum systems

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Hossein Nejad, Hoda ^a   O'Reilly, Edward J ^a   Olaya Castro, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

entropy; heat; quantum thermodynamics; work

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; HAMILTONIANS; HEATING; QUANTUM OPTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIPARTITE QUANTUM SYSTEMS; COMMUTATION RELATION; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; QUANTUM THERMODYNAMICS; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; WORK;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84939176806     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/7/075014     Document Type: Article

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