Snake's perspective on heat: reconstruction of input using an imperfect detection system

Andreas B Sichert1, Paul Friedel, J Leo van Hemmen

  • 1Physik Department, Technische Universität München, 85747 Garching bei München, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|October 10, 2006
PubMed

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