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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics at the microscale: Work relations and the second law

✍ Scribed by Eliran Boksenbojm; Bram Wynants; Christopher Jarzynski

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
507 KB
Volume
389
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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