Reversibility in nonequilibrium trajectories of an optically trapped particle

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

Volumn 70, Issue 1 2, 2004, Pages

  Reid, J C ^a   Carberry, D M ^a   Wang, G M ^a   Sevick, E M ^a   Evans, Denis J ^a   Searles, Debra J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTATS;

FLUCTUATION THEOREM (FT); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; NEWTONIAN DISSIPATION FUNCTION; NEWTONIAN DYNAMICS;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 42749105616     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.016111     Document Type: Article

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