An illustrative example of the relationship between dissipation and relative entropy
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Kawai, Parrondo, and Van den Broeck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 080602 (2007)] have recently established a quantitative relationship between dissipated work and a microscopic, information-theoretic measure of irreversibility. We illustrate this result using the exactly solvable system of a Brownian particle in a dragged harmonic trap.
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@article{arxiv.0901.0576,
title = {An illustrative example of the relationship between dissipation and relative entropy},
author = {Jordan Horowitz and Christopher Jarzynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0576},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Physical Review E