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Free Energy Changes, Fluctuations, and Path Probabilities

2011/04/20 by William G. Hoover, Hoover, William G., Carol G. Hoover +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1104.3928

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Abstract

We illustrate some of the static and dynamic relations discovered by Cohen, Crooks, Evans, Jarzynski, Kirkwood, Morriss, Searles, and Zwanzig. These relations link nonequilibrium processes to equilibrium isothermal free energy changes and to dynamical path probabilities. We include ideas suggested by Dellago, Geissler, Oberhofer, and Schoell-Paschinger. Our treatment is intended to be pedagogical, for use in an updated version of our book: Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos. Comments are very welcome.

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