2009/03/31 by Adrian Baule, Baule, A., E. G. D. Cohen +1
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Field-Flow Fractionation Techniques #Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0903.5362
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We consider a particle, confined to a moving harmonic potential, under the influence of friction and external asymmetric Poissonian shot noise (PSN). We study the fluctuations of the work done to maintain this system in a nonequilibrium steady state. PSN generalizes the usual Gaussian noise and can be considered to be a paradigm of external noise, where fluctuation and dissipation originate from physically independent mechanisms. We consider two scenarios: (i) the noise is given purely by PSN and (ii) in addition to PSN the particle is subject to white Gaussian noise. In both cases we derive exact expressions for the large deviation form of the work distribution, which are characterized by the time scales of the system. We show that the usual steady state fluctuation theorem is violated in our model and that in a certain parameter regime large negative work fluctuations are more likely to occur than the corresponding positive ones, though the average work is always positive.