Work and heat probability distributions in out-of-equilibrium systems

2007/06/01 by Alberto Imparato, A. Imparato, Luca Peliti +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2007.04.017

published as Comptes Rendus Physique 8, (2007) 556-566 · Contribution to Proceedings of "Work, Dissipation, and Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Physics", Brussels, 2006

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Abstract

We review and discuss the equations governing the distribution of work done on a system which is driven out of equilibrium by external manipulation, as well as those governing the entropy flow to a reservoir in a nonequilibrium system. We take advantage of these equations to investigate the path phase transition in a manipulated mean-field Ising model and the large-deviation function for the heat flow in the asymmetric exclusion process with periodically varying transition probabilities.

Citations

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