Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamics for Small Systems and Short Time Scales

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Wang, G M ^a   Sevick, E M ^a   Mittag, Emil ^a   Searles, Debra J ^b   Evans, Denis J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LASER BEAMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

ENTROPY-PRODUCING TRAJECTORIES; FLUCTUATION THEOREM; MICRON-SIZED PARTICLE; OPTICAL TRAP; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; STOKES DRAG COEFFICIENT;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0037194057     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.050601     Document Type: Article

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