Estimate of the free energy difference in mechanical systems from work fluctuations: Experiments and models

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages 287-304

  Douarche, F ^a   Ciliberto, S ^a   Petrosyan, A ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Physique UMR CNRS ENSL   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamical processes (experiment); Fluctuations (experiment); Fluctuations (theory); Mechanical properties (DNA, RNA, membranes, biopolymers) (experiment)

Indexed keywords

EID: 26244432051     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2005/09/P09011     Document Type: Article

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