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The other QFT

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Fluctuation theorems go beyond the linear response regime to describe systems far from equilibrium. But what happens to these theorems when we enter the quantum realm? The answers, it seems, are now coming thick and fast.

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  1. Peter Hänggi and Peter Talkner are in the Institute of Physics at the University of Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany,

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