Thermal machines beyond the weak coupling regime
How much work can be extracted from a heat bath using a thermal machine? The study of this question has a very long history in statistical physics in the weak-coupling limit, when applied to macroscopic systems. However, the assumption that thermal heat baths remain uncorrelated with associated phys...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2014-01-01
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Series: | New Journal of Physics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/12/125009 |