Recent progress in fluctuation theorems and free energy recovery
Statistical Mechanics
2015-05-27 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
Biomolecules
Abstract
In this note we review recent progress about fluctuation relations and their applicability to free energy recovery in single molecule experiments. We underline the importance of the operational definition for the mechanical work and the non-invariance of fluctuation relations under Galilean transformations, both aspects currently amenable to experimental test. Finally we describe a generalization of the Crooks fluctuation relation useful to recover free energies of partially equilibrated states and thermodynamic branches.
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@article{arxiv.1101.3174,
title = {Recent progress in fluctuation theorems and free energy recovery},
author = {Anna Alemany and Marco Ribezzi and Felix Ritort},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.3174},
year = {2015}
}
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15 pages, 8 figures