Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems

After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation. He develops a method based on recent results on fluctuation theorems th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roldán, Édgar (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
Temas:
Thermodynamics.
System theory.
Condensed matter.
Biophysics.
Mathematical physics.
Complex Systems.
Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Small-scale thermodynamics
  • Irreversibility and dissipation
  • Dissipation and kullback-leibler divergence
  • Estimating the kullback-leibler divergence
  • A case study: the flashing ratchet
  • Application to biology: the ear hair bundle
  • Experimental tests and applications of stochastic Thermodynamics
  • Energetics of symmetry breaking
  • Effective heating with random forces
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusions and outlook.

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