Entanglement, nonlocality, postselection and thermodynamics
In this second part of the thesis, we turn to the study of thermodynamics at the quantum scale, with a special focus on small thermal machines. To begin with, in Chapter 4, we look at the concept of a virtual temperature, as introduced in [43]. This is a temperature calculated for any pair of energy...
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University of Bristol
2015
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