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Non-equilibrium work relation beyond Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-18 v2

Abstract

The presence of multiplicative noise can alter measurements of forces acting on nanoscopic objects. Taking into account of multiplicative noise, we derive a series of non-equilibrium thermodynamical equalities as generalization of the Jarzynski equality, the detailed fluctuation theorem and the Hatano-Sasa's relation. Our result demonstrates that the Jarzynski equality and the detailed fluctuation theorem remains valid only for systems with the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution at the equilibrium state, but the Hatano-Sasa's relation is robust with respect to the ambiguity on multiplicative noise.

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@article{arxiv.1402.0416,
  title  = {Non-equilibrium work relation beyond Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution},
  author = {Ying Tang and Ruoshi Yuan and Ping Ao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0416},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages

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