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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

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

Using methods of phenomenological non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the proof is performed that Jarzynski's equality is only valid in the reversible limit and that a conclusion to non-equilibrium inequalities concerning free energy and work…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Wolfgang Muschik

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

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

The nonequilibrium work relation, or Jarzynski equality, establishes a statistical relationship between a series of nonequilibrium experiments on a system subjected to thermal fluctuations and a hypothetical experiment at thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-19 Jean-Luc Garden

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

A quantum analogue of the Jarzynski equality is constructed. This equality connects an ensemble average of exponentiated work with the Helmholtz free-energy difference in a nonequilibrium switching process subject to a thermal heat bath. To…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Satoshi Yukawa

The interest in active matter stimulates the need to generalize thermodynamic description and relations to active matter systems, which are intrinsically out of equilibrium. One important example is the Jarzynski relation, which links the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-31 Grzegorz Szamel

Recently, Jarzynski suggested a striking thermodynamic equation that relates free energy change of a system and work done on the system during arbitrary nonequilibrium processes, which has been believed to hold irrespective of detailed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Jaeyoung Sung

In the global framework of finding an axiomatic derivation of nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics from fundamental principles, such as the maximum path entropy -- also known as Maximum Caliber principle -- , this work proposes an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 Diego González , Sergio Davis

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

Most non-equilibrium processes in thermodynamics are quantified only by inequalities, however the Jarzynski relation presents a remarkably simple and general equality relating non-equilibrium quantities with the equilibrium free energy, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 T. P. Xiong , L. L. Yan , F. Zhou , K. Rehan , D. F. Liang , L. Chen , W. L. Yang , Z. H. Ma , M. Feng , V. Vedral

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

Recent years have witnessed major advances in our understanding of nonequilibrium processes. The Jarzynski equality, for example, provides a link between equilibrium free energy differences and finite-time, nonequilibrium dynamics. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-27 Dibyendu Mandal , Michael R. DeWeese

Almost 25 years ago, Jarzynski published a paper in which it was asserted: the work done, W, in driving a system from state A to state B, characterized by the Helmholtz free energies FA and FB, satisfies an equality in which an average over…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Ronald F. Fox

Jarzynski equality [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 56}, 5018 (1997)] is found to be valid with slight modefication for the transitions between nonequilibrium stationary states, as well as the one between equilibrium states. Also numerical results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takahiro Hatano

The Jarzynski equality allows the calculation of free-energy differences using values of work measured from nonequilibrium trajectories. The number of trajectories required to accurately estimate free-energy differences in this way grows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Stephen Whitelam

The Jarzynski Equality is a well-known and widely used identity, relating the free energy difference between two states of a system to the work done over some arbitrary, nonequilibrium transformation between the two states. Despite being…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-18 Stuart J. Davie , Owen G. Jepps , Lamberto Rondoni , James C. Reid , Debra J. Searles

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
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