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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

We perform, with the help of cloud computing resources, extensive Langevin simulations which provide free energy estimates for unbiased three dimensional polymer translocation. We employ the Jarzynski equality in its rigorous setting, to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Felipe Mondaini , Luca Moriconi

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

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

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

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

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

Jarzynski's identity for the free energy difference between two equilibrium states can be viewed as a special case of a more general procedure based on phase space mappings. Solving a system's equation of motion by approximate means…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wolfgang Lechner , Harald Oberhofer , Christoph Dellago , Phillip L. Geissler

In this short communication, I give a very simple derivation of the Jarzynski equality, which allows to compute the free energy difference of a body, which is driven between two equilibrium states $A$ and $B$ by an external (time-dependent)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Frédéric Douarche

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

The computation of free energy differences through an exponential weighting of out of equilibrium paths (known as the Jarzynski equality) is often used for transitions between states described by an external parameter $\lambda$ in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Tony Lelievre , Mathias Rousset , Gabriel Stoltz

Jarzynski's theorem is a well-known equality in statistical mechanics, which relates fluctuations in the work performed during a non-equilibrium transformation of a system, to the free-energy difference between two equilibrium ensembles. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-16 Michele Caselle , Gianluca Costagliola , Alessandro Nada , Marco Panero , Arianna Toniato

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

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 investigate the connection between recent results in quantum thermodynamics and fluctuation relations by adopting a fully quantum mechanical description of thermodynamics. By including a work system whose energy is allowed to fluctuate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Álvaro M. Alhambra , Lluis Masanes , Jonathan Oppenheim , Christopher Perry

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

The past two decades witnessed important developments in the field of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Among these developments, the Jarzynski equality, being a milestone following the landmark work of Clausius and Kelvin, stands out.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shuoming An , Jing-Ning Zhang , Mark Um , Dingshun Lv , Yao Lu , Junhua Zhang , Zhang-qi Yin , H. T. Quan , Kihwan Kim

Extracting equilibrium information from nonequilibrium measurements is a challenge task of great importance in understanding the thermodynamic properties of physical, chemical, and biological systems. The discovery of the Jarzynski equality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-29 Geng Li , Z. C. Tu

Application of Jarzynski nonequilibrium work relation to free energy calculation is limited by the very slow convergence of the estimate when dissipation is high. We present a novel perturbation protocol able to improve the convergence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-03 Ognjen Perisic , Hui Lu

We have experimentally checked the Jarzynski equality and the Crooks relation on the thermal fluctuations of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator in contact with a heat reservoir. We found that, independently of the time scale and amplitude…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Douarche , S. Ciliberto , A. Petrosyan , I. Rabbiosi