Work and heat probability distributions in out-of-equilibrium systems
Statistical Mechanics
2007-08-07 v1
Abstract
We review and discuss the equations governing the distribution of work done on a system which is driven out of equilibrium by external manipulation, as well as those governing the entropy flow to a reservoir in a nonequilibrium system. We take advantage of these equations to investigate the path phase transition in a manipulated mean-field Ising model and the large-deviation function for the heat flow in the asymmetric exclusion process with periodically varying transition probabilities.
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@article{arxiv.0708.0740,
title = {Work and heat probability distributions in out-of-equilibrium systems},
author = {A. Imparato and L. Peliti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0740},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Contribution to Proceedings of "Work, Dissipation, and Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Physics", Brussels, 2006