Experimental study of the fluctuation theorem in a nonequilibrium steady state

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Wang, G M ^a   Reid, J C ^a   Carberry, D M ^a   Williams, D R M ^a   Sevick, E M ^a   Evans, Denis J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

DISSIPATION FUNCTIONS; FLUCTUATION THEOREM (FT); LANGEVIN DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THERMODYNAMICS;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 41349100647     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046142     Document Type: Article

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9. 0). The first term on the RHS represents the transient contribution associated with displacing the particle with the bead from the center of the trap to the lag distance. The second term on the RHS is the steady-state contribution and is equivalent to the stochastically derived steady-state dissipation function, Eq. (25), investigated in this paper.
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