Fluctuation theorems: Work is not an observable by Peter Talkner and others (2007, 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.050102)

By Peter Talkner, Eric Lutz, Peter Hänggi.

Publisher: American Physical Society.

Published in Physical Review E 75, issue 5, 050102(R).

Online text: arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0703189

Cited passages: Talkner, Lutz and Hänggi, p. 2, equations (8)–(10): initial energy outcome, conditional transition probability and two-measurement work distribution; Talkner, Lutz and Hänggi, p. 2, paragraph before equation (7): sudden switch gives the identity time-evolution operator.