Affinity and Fluctuations in a Mesoscopic Noria
Statistical Mechanics
2014-02-12 v1
Abstract
We exhibit the invariance of cycle affinities in finite state Markov processes under various natural probabilistic constructions, for instance under conditioning and under a new combinatorial construction that we call ``drag and drop''. We show that cycle affinities have a natural probabilistic meaning related to first passage non-equilibrium fluctuation relations that we establish.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.2422,
title = {Affinity and Fluctuations in a Mesoscopic Noria},
author = {M. Bauer and F. Cornu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2422},
year = {2014}
}
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30 pages, 1 figure