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We study the non-equilibrium work in a pedagogical model of relativistic ideal gas. We obtain the exact work distribution and verify the Jarzynski's equality. In the non-relativistic limit, our results recover the non-relativistic results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-21 Xianghang Zhang , Tingzhang Shi , H. T. Quan

Using theory and simulations, we carried out a first systematic characterization of DNA unzipping via nanopore translocation. Starting from partially unzipped states, we found three dynamical regimes depending on the applied force, f: (i)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-08 Antonio Suma , Vincenzo Carnevale , Cristian Micheletti

To explain the observed dynamics in equilibrium single-molecule measurements of biomolecules, the experimental observable is often chosen as a putative reaction coordinate along which kinetic behavior is presumed to be governed by diffusive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-21 John D. Chodera , Vijay S. Pande

The Jarzynski identity can be applied to instances when a microscopic system is pulled repeatedly but quickly along some coordinate, allowing the calculation of an equilibrium free energy profile along the pulling coordinate from a set of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Daun Jeong , Ioan Andricioaei

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

The distribution of work done on a quantum system by instantaneously changing the Hamiltonian is shown to satisfy the Jarzynski identity.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shaul Mukamel

Jarzynski's equality sets a strong bound on the probability of violating the second law of thermodynamics by extracting work beyond the free energy difference. We derive finite-time refinements to this bound for driven systems in contact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-19 Harry J. D. Miller , Martí Perarnau-Llobet

We derive analytical expressions for the bias of the Jarzynski free-energy estimator from N nonequilibrium work measurements, for a generic work distribution. To achieve this, we map the estimator onto the Random Energy Model in a suitable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matteo Palassini , Felix Ritort

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

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

A simple lattice model, recently introduced as a generalization of the Wako--Sait\^o model of protein folding, is used to investigate the properties of widely studied molecules under external forces. The equilibrium properties of the model…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-10-16 A. Imparato , A. Pelizzola , M. Zamparo

Thermodynamics constrains changes to the energy of a system, both deliberate and random, via its first and second laws. When the system is not in equilibrium, fluctuation theorems such as the Jarzynski equality further restrict the…

The equilibrium free energy landscape of off-lattice model heteropolymers as a function of an internal coordinate, namely the end-to-end distance, is reconstructed from out-of-equilibrium steered molecular dynamics data. This task is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-17 Stefano Luccioli , Alberto Imparato , Alessandro Torcini

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

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

Work in isolated quantum systems is a random variable and its probability distribution function obeys the celebrated fluctuation theorems of Crooks and Jarzynski. In this study, we provide a simple way to describe the work probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Eric G. Arrais , Diego A. Wisniacki , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Fabricio Toscano

The transition between a regime in which thermodynamic relations apply only to ensembles of small systems coupled to a large environment and a regime in which they can be used to characterize individual macroscopic systems is analyzed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alberto Suárez , Robert Silbey , Irwin Oppenheim

The equilibrium free energy landscape of an off-lattice model protein as a function of an internal (reaction) coordinate is reconstructed from out-of-equilibrium mechanical unfolding manipulations. This task is accomplished via two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-17 Alberto Imparato , Stefano Luccioli , Alessandro Torcini

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

A system--bath (SB) model is considered to examine the Jarzynski equality in the fully quantum regime. In our previous paper [J. Chem. Phys. 153 (2020) 234107], we carried out "exact" numerical experiments using hierarchical equations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-11 Souichi Sakamoto , Yoshitaka Tanimura