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We suggest and discuss a simple model of an ideal gas under the piston to gain an insight into the workings of the Jarzynski identity connecting the average exponential of the work over the non-equilibrium trajectories with the equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. C. Lua , A. Y. Grosberg

The free energy of glasses cannot be estimated using thermodynamic integration, as glasses are intrinsically not in equilibrium. We present numerical simulations showing that, in contrast, plausible free-energy estimates of a Kob-Andersen…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-07 H. A. Vinutha , Daan Frenkel

In this paper, we study Jarzynski's equality and fluctuation theorems for diffusion processes. While some of the results considered in the current work are known in the (mainly physics) literature, we review and generalize these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Carsten Hartmann , Christof Schuette , Wei Zhang

Jarzynski's equality (JE) allows us to compute free energy differences from distributions of work. In molecular dynamics simulations, the traditional way of constructing work distributions is to perform as many pulling simulations as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 Van Ngo

We obtain the exact nonequilibrium work generating function (NEWGF), for a small system consisting of a massive Brownian particle connected to internal and external springs. The external work is provided to the system for a finite time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 W. A. M. Morgado , D. O. Soares-Pinto

An expression is derived for the classical free energy difference between two configurations of a system, in terms of an ensemble of finite-time measurements of the work performed in parametrically switching from one configuration to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Jarzynski

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

We have studied the Jarzynski equality (JE) in van der Pol and Rayleigh oscillators which are typical deterministic non-Hamiltonian models, but not expected to rigorously satisfy the JE because they are not microscopically reversible. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hideo Hasegawa

Fluctuation relations allow for the computation of equilibrium properties, like free energy, from an ensemble of non-equilibrium dynamics simulations. Computing them for quantum systems, however, can be difficult, as performing dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Lindsay Bassman , Katherine Klymko , Diyi Liu , Norman M. Tubman , Wibe A. de Jong

The classical Jarzynski equality establishes an exact relation between the stochastic work performed on a system driven out of thermal equilibrium and the free energy difference in a corresponding quasi-static process. This fluctuation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Konstantin Beyer , Walter T. Strunz

In conventional thermodynamics, it is widely acknowledged that the realization of an isothermal process for a system requires a quasi-static controlling protocol. Here we propose and design a strategy to realize a finite-rate isothermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-25 Geng Li , H. T. Quan , Z. C. Tu

Work is a process-based quantity, and its measurement typically requires interaction with a measuring device multiple times. While classical systems allow for non-invasive and accurate measurements, quantum systems present unique challenges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Giulia Rubino , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Paul Skrzypczyk

We introduce a simple enhanced sampling approach for the calculation of free energy differences and barriers along a one-dimensional reaction coordinate. First, a small number of short nonequilibrium simulations are carried out along the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Kristof M. Bal

We show how Jarzynski relation can be exploited to analyze the nature of order-disorder and a bifurcation type dynamical transition in terms of a response function derived on the basis of work distribution over non-equilibrium paths between…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Deb Shankar Ray

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

According to the Jarzynski theorem, equilibrium free energy differences can be calculated from the statistics of work carried out during non-equilibrium transformations. Although exact, this approach can be plagued by large statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Lechner , Christoph Dellago

In open quantum systems, a clear distinction between work and heat is often challenging, and extending the quantum Jarzynski equality to systems evolving under general quantum channels beyond unitality remains an open problem in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Akira Sone , Yi-Xiang Liu , Paola Cappellaro

Jarzynski's equality provides an elegant and powerful tool to directly compute differences in free energy in Monte Carlo simulations and it can be readily extended to lattice gauge theories to compute a large set of physically interesting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Alessandro Nada , Michele Caselle , Marco Panero

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

There are two related theorems which hold even in far from equilibrium, namely fluctuation theorem and Jarzynski equality. Fluctuation theorem states the existence of symmetry of fluctuation of entropy production, while Jarzynski equality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Monnai