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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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Anna Alemany , Marco Ribezzi , Felix Ritort

A driven granular material, e.g. a vibrated box full of sand, is a stationary system which may be very far from equilibrium. The standard equilibrium statistical mechanics is therefore inadequate to describe fluctuations in such a system.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-12 A. Barrat , A. Puglisi , E. Trizac , P. Visco , F. van Wijland

The role of fluctuation-dissipation relations (theorems) for the magnetization dynamics with Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert and Bloch-Bloembergen damping terms are discussed. We demonstrate that the use of the Callen-Welton fluctuation-dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vladimir L. Safonov , H. Neal Bertram

The Gallavotti-Cohen fluctuation theorem suggests a general symmetry in the fluctuations of the entropy production, a basic concept in the theory of irreversible processes, based on results in the theory of strongly chaotic maps. We study…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-26 Christian Maes , Frank Redig , Michel Verschuere

We demonstrate the use of Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations and a two-state fluctuating ratchet model to predict the distribution of microscopic properties in a sample of Brownian motors. Our scheme only uses the information about the mean…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Rupsha Mukherjee , Kaustubh Rane

Fluctuations in the statistical model of heavy ion collisions are studied. The role of statistics, relativity, constraints, decaying resonances and branching processes are investigated using this model. Also studied are thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Aram Z. Mekjian

We test the fluctuation theorem from measurements in turbulent flows. We study the time fluctuations of the force acting on an obstacle, and we consider two experimental situations: the case of a von K\'arm\'an swirling flow between…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Ciliberto , N. Garnier , S. Hernandez , C. Lacpatia J. -F. Pinton , G. Ruiz Chavarria

We consider the behaviour of current fluctuations in the one-dimensional partially asymmetric zero-range process with open boundaries. Significantly, we find that the distribution of large current fluctuations does not satisfy the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Harris , A. Rákos , G. M. Schuetz

The motion of molecular motor is essential to the biophysical functioning of living cells. In principle, this motion can be regraded as a multiple chemical states process. In which, the molecular motor can jump between different chemical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yunxin Zhang

This book provides a modern review of Fluctuation Relations and Fluctuation Theorems in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. It focuses on the pioneering perspectives of Gallavotti and Cohen, according to which a fluctuation theorem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Noé Cuneo , Vojkan Jakšić , Claude-Alain Pillet , Armen Shirikyan

We consider the application of fluctuation relations to the dynamics of coarse-grained systems, as might arise in a hypothetical experiment in which a system is monitored with a low-resolution measuring apparatus. We analyze a stochastic,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-19 Saar Rahav , Christopher Jarzynski

We present a theoretical investigation of thermal fluctuation statistics in a molecular motor. Energy transfer in the motor is described using a multidimensional discrete master equation with nearest-neighbor hopping. In this theory, energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-07 K. J. Challis , M. W. Jack

Approximate expressions for correlation functions in binary inhomogeneous mixtures are derived in a framework of the mesoscopic theory [Ciach A., Mol. Phys., 2011, {\textbf{109}}, 1101]. Fluctuation contribution is taken into account in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-26 A. Ciach , O. Patsahan , A. Meyra

We demonstrate that the fluctuation theorem of Gallavotti and Cohen can be used to characterize the class of dynamics that arises in nonthermal systems of collectively interacting particles driven over random quenched disorder. By observing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-05 J. A. Drocco , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

The stochastic dynamics of flagellar beating for micro-swimmers, such as flagellated cells, sperms and microalgae, is widely thought to include a feedback mechanism between flagellar shape and the rate of activation/de-activation of the $N…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-01 F. Fanelli , A. Puglisi

We present numerical evidence supporting the validity of the Gallavotti-Cohen Fluctuation Theorem applied to the driven Lorentz gas with Nos\'e-Hoover thermostating. It is moreover argued that the asymptotic form of the fluctuation formula…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-29 Thomas Gilbert

We derive the exact equality, referred to as the fluctuation relation for heat engines (FRHE), that relates statistics of heat extracted from one of the two heat baths and the work per one cycle of a heat engine operation. Carnot's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 N. A. Sinitsyn

We discuss the fluctuation properties of equilibrium chaotic systems with constraints such as iso-kinetic and Nos\'e-Hoover thermostats. Although the dynamics of these systems does not typically preserve phase-space volumes, the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-29 T. Gilbert , J. R. Dorfman

We show that the shear rate at a fixed shear stress in a micellar gel in a jammed state exhibits large fluctuations, showing positive and negative values, with the mean shear rate being positive. The resulting probability distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-03 Sayantan Majumdar , A. K. Sood

Fluctuation theorems have a very special place in the study of non equilibrium dynamics of physical systems. The form in which it is used most extensively is the Gallavoti-Cohen Fluctuation Theorem which is in terms of the distribution of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 G. S. Agarwal , Sushanta Dattagupta