Differences between statistical mechanics and thermodynamics on the mesoscopic scale
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Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0163-1829,1095-3795
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.56.1025