Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Energy-temperature uncertainty relation in quantum thermodynamics

  • H. J. D. Miller,
  • J. Anders

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04536-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The energy-temperature uncertainty relation bounds the precision of simultaneously estimating energy and temperature of a system in equilibrium. In this article, the authors provide a generalised version which is valid for both classical and quantum systems, and at arbitrary coupling to the environment.