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CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 545-579Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2016.1201896
Keywords
(Quantum) information-thermodynamics link; (quantum) fluctuation theorems; thermalisation of quantum systems; single shot thermodynamics; quantum thermal machines
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- Ministry of Education
- National Research Foundation of Singapore
- Royal Society
- EPSRC [EP/M009165/1]
- European COST network [MP1209]
- EPSRC [EP/M009165/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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