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A promising method for calculating free energy differences Delta F is to generate non-equilibrium data via ``fast-growth'' simulations or experiments -- and then use Jarzynski's equality. However, a difficulty with using Jarzynski's…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Marty Ytreberg , Daniel M. Zuckerman

The Jarzynski equality, which relates equilibrium free-energy difference to an average of non-equilibrium work, plays a central role in modern non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics. In this paper, we study a weaker consequence of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Dani R. Castellanos , Petr Jizba

The present paper proposes an adaptive biasing potential for the computation of free energy landscapes. It is motivated by statistical learning arguments and unifies the tasks of biasing the molecular dynamics to escape free energy wells…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 I. Bilionis , P. S. Koutsourelakis

Jarzynski's equality sets a strong bound on the probability of violating the second law of thermodynamics by extracting work beyond the free energy difference. We derive finite-time refinements to this bound for driven systems in contact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-19 Harry J. D. Miller , Martí Perarnau-Llobet

The Jarzynski relation is a recently discovered result relating the average exponential of the work done under nonequilibrium conditions to an equilibrium free energy difference. We illustrate this remarkable relation by considering the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rhonald C. Lua

A result of great theoretical and experimental interest, Jarzynski equality predicts a free energy change $\Delta F$ of a system at inverse temperature $\beta$ from an ensemble average of non-equilibrium exponential work, i.e., $\langle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-18 Juan D. Jaramillo , Jiawen Deng , Jiangbin Gong

We demonstrate the conventional Jarzynski relation (JR) is violated for a non-Markovian process with colored noise. As an example an exactly soluble model is considered with a simple protocol for the external work performed on the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-24 Michael Schulz , Steffen Trimper

We extend the Jarzynski equality, which is an exact identity between the equilibrium and nonequilibrium averages, to be useful to compute the value of the entropy difference by changing the Hamiltonian. To derive our result, we introduce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-24 Hitoshi Katsuda , Masayuki Ohzeki

We introduce a straightforward, single-ensemble, path sampling approach to calculate free energy differences based on Jarzynski's relation. For a two-dimensional ``toy'' test system, the new (minimally optimized) method performs roughly one…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Marty Ytreberg , Daniel M. Zuckerman

This paper is committed to investigate an extension of the classical adaptive biasing force method, which is used to compute the free energy related to the Boltzmann-Gibbs measure and a reaction coordinate function. The issue of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Houssam AlRachid , Tony Lelievre

The Jarzynski equality relates the free energy difference between two equilibrium states to the fluctuating irreversible work afforded to switch between them. The prescribed fixed temperature for the equilibrium states implicitly constrains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-03 Tobias Thalheim , Marco Braun , Gianmaria Falasco , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos

When a system is driven out of equilibrium by a time-dependent protocol that modifies the Hamiltonian, it follows a nonequilibrium path. Samples of these paths can be used in nonequilibrium work theorems to estimate equilibrium quantities,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-29 David D. L. Minh

We propose an adiabatic reweighting algorithm for computing the free energy along an external parameter from adaptive molecular dynamics simulations. The adaptive bias is estimated using Bayes identity and information from all the sampled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-08 Lingling Cao , Gabriel Stoltz , Tony Lelièvre , Mihai-Cosmin Marinica , Manuel Athènes

The well-known Jarzynski equality, often written in the form $e^{-\beta\Delta F}=\langle e^{-\beta W}\rangle$, provides a non-equilibrium means to measure the free energy difference $\Delta F$ of a system at the same inverse temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-22 Jiawen Deng , Juan D. Jaramillo , Peter Hanggi , Jiangbin Gong

Despite the strength of Molecular Dynamics simulations in providing insights into the microscopic details of phenomenon in many fields in materials science, physics and biology, the biggest barrier is its limited timescale which is several…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Mahdi Tavakol , Jin-Chong Tan , Alexander M. Korsunsky

We study a Jarzysnki type equality for work in systems that are monitored using non-projective unsharp measurements. The information acquired by the observer from the outcome $f$ of an energy measurement, and the subsequent conditioned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Daniel Alonso , Antonia Ruiz García

From the perspective of quantum thermodynamics, realisable measurements cost work and result in measurement devices that are not perfectly correlated with the measured systems. We investigate the consequences for the estimation of work in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Tiago Debarba , Gonzalo Manzano , Yelena Guryanova , Marcus Huber , Nicolai Friis

Understanding and manipulating work fluctuations in microscale and nanoscale systems are of both fundamental and practical interest. For example, aspects of work fluctuations will be an important factor in designing nanoscale heat engines.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-26 Gaoyang Xiao , Jiangbin Gong

The Jarzynski Equality relates the free energy difference between two equilibrium states of a system to the average of the work over all irreversible paths to go from one state to the other. We claim that the derivation of this equality is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. G. D. Cohen , David Mauzerall

Due to their versatility in investigating phenomena in microscopic scales, optical tweezers have been an excellent platform for studying stochastic thermodynamics. In this context, this work presents experimental measurements of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-15 Thalyta Tavares Martins , Lucas Prado Kamizaki , Sérgio Ricardo Muniz