Fluctuations and irreversibility: An experimental demonstration of a second-law-like theorem using a colloidal particle held in an optical trap

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Carberry, D M ^a   Reid, J C ^a   Wang, G M ^a   Sevick, E M ^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

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING; THERMODYNAMICS; TRAJECTORIES; VECTORS;

FINITE SYSTEMS; IRREVERSIBILITY; OPTICAL TRAPS; TIME-REVERSIBLE EQUATIONS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 2542460626     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.140601     Document Type: Article

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