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Tunneling in Open Systems: Thermodynamical Approaches

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Quantum Tunneling in Complex Systems

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A complete description of tunneling processes in real systems has to take into account the presence of environmental degrees of freedom. In fact, this has led at the beginning of the 1980s to fundamental questions such as [1]:

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Ankerhold, J. (2007). Tunneling in Open Systems: Thermodynamical Approaches. In: Quantum Tunneling in Complex Systems. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68076-4_5

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