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A fluctuation relation, which is an extended form of the Jarzynski equality, is introduced and discussed. We show how to apply this relation in order to evaluate the free energy landscape of simple systems. These systems are manipulated by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Imparato , L. Peliti

Here we investigate the impact of temporal entanglement on a system's ability to perform thermodynamical work. We show that while the quantum version of the Jarzynski equality remains satisfied even in the presence of temporal entanglement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Vlatko Vedral

In open systems with strong coupling, the interaction energy between the system and the environment is significant, so thermodynamic quantities cannot be reliably obtained by traditional statistical mechanics methods. The Hamiltonian of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-02 Mohammad Rahbar , Christopher J. Stein

We give a field-theoretic proof of the nonequilibrium work relations for a space dependent field with stochastic dynamics. The path integral representation and its symmetries allow us to derive Jarzynski's equality. In addition, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-01 Kirone Mallick , Moshe Moshe , Henri Orland

We consider a time-dependent quantum linear oscillator coupled to a bath at an arbitrary strength. We then introduce a generalized Jarzynski equality (GJE) which includes the terms reflecting the system-bath coupling. This enables us to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-03 Ilki Kim

The energy change dE_k for the kth microstate is erroneously equated with the external work done on the microstate. It ignores the ubiquitous internal energy change d_iW_k due to force imbalance between the internal and external forces. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-29 P. D. Gujrati

Detailed fluctuation theorem, a microscopic version of the steady state fluctuation theorem, has been proposed by Jarzynski and demonstrated in the case of Hamiltonian systems weakly coupled with reservoirs. We show that an identical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-20 K. Gururaj , G. Raghavan , M. C. Valsakumar

We study two non-equilibrium work fluctuation theorems, the Crooks' theorem and the Jarzynski equality, for a test system coupled to a spatially extended heat reservoir whose degrees of freedom are explicitly modeled. The sufficient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-22 Punyabrata Pradhan , Yariv Kafri , Dov Levine

We investigate the statistics of work performed on a noninteracting electron gas confined into a ring as a threaded magnetic field is turned on. For an electron gas initially prepared in a grand canonical state it is demonstrated that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-27 Juyeon Yi , Peter Talkner , Michele Campisi

We study the statistics of energy fluctuations in a three-level quantum system subject to a sequence of projective quantum measurements. We check that, as expected, the quantum Jarzynski equality holds provided that the initial state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Guido Giachetti , Stefano Gherardini , Andrea Trombettoni , Stefano Ruffo

The work performed on a system in a microcanonical state by changes in a control parameter is characterized in terms of its statistics. The transition probabilities between eigenstates of the system Hamiltonians at the beginning and the end…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-21 Peter Talkner , Manuel Morillo , Juyeon Yi , Peter Hanggi

The Jarzynski equality is a cornerstone of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, linking work statistics to equilibrium free-energy differences. Although it has been extensively verified in classical and quantum Hermitian settings, its status in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zongru Yang , Teng Liu , Xiaodong Tan , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

We consider a single Josephson junction in the presence of time varying gate charge, and examine the nonequilibrium work done by the charge control in the framework of fluctuation theorems. We obtain the probability distribution functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-07 Su Do Yi , Beom Jun Kim , Juyeon Yi

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

The nonequilibrium fluctuation relation is a cornerstone of quantum thermodynamics. It is widely believed that the system-bath heat exchange obeys the famous Jarzynski-W\'{o}jcik fluctuation theorem. However, this theorem is established in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

Nonequilibrium processes of small systems such as molecular machines are ubiquitous in biology, chemistry and physics, but are often challenging to comprehend. In the past two decades, several exact thermodynamic relations of nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-26 Thai M. Hoang , Rui Pan , Jonghoon Ahn , Jaehoon Bang , H. T. Quan , Tongcang Li

Responses of small open oscillator systems to applied external forces have been studied with the use of an exactly solvable classical Caldeira-Leggett (CL) model in which a harmonic oscillator (system) is coupled to finite $N$-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hideo Hasegawa

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 present some aspects of the fidelity approach to phase transitions based on lower and upper bounds on the fidelity susceptibility that are expressed in terms of thermodynamic quantities. Both commutative and non commutative cases are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-02 N. S. Tonchev , J. G. Brankov

Recently there has been growing interest in extending the thermodynamic method from static configurations to dynamical trajectories. In this approach, ensembles of trajectories are treated in an analogous manner to ensembles of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-23 Robert M. Turner , Thomas Speck , Juan P. Garrahan