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The recent work, Nemoto and Sasa [Phys. Rev. E, 83: 030105(R) (2011)], has shown that large deviations of the current characterizing a nonequilibrium system are obtained by observing the typical current for a modified system specified by a…

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Fluctuation theorem is one of the major achievements in the field of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics during the past two decades. Steady-state fluctuation theorem of sample entropy production rate in terms of large deviation principle…

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