Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Local quantum thermal susceptibility

  • Antonella De Pasquale,
  • Davide Rossini,
  • Rosario Fazio,
  • Vittorio Giovannetti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12782
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In thermodynamics, thermal properties of systems are obtained from averaging procedures which smooth out local details. Here, the authors introduce the concept of local quantum thermal susceptibility, a measure for the best achievable accuracy of estimation of temperature via local measurements.