Local quantum thermal susceptibility

Thermodynamics relies on the possibility to describe systems composed of a large number of constituents in terms of few macroscopic variables. Its foundations are rooted into the paradigm of statistical mechanics, where thermal properties originate from averaging procedures which smoothen out local...

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Main Authors: De Pasquale, Antonella, Rossini, Davide, Fazio, Rosario, Giovannetti, Vittorio
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056999/