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Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems / by Édgar Roldán
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Cham [u.a.] : Springer, 2014Description: Online-Ressource (XXI, 211 p. 75 illus., 41 illus. in color, online resource)ISBN:- 9783319070797
- 536.7
- QC310.15-319
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Summary: After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation. He develops a method based on recent results on fluctuation theorems that is able to estimate dissipation using only information acquired in a single, sufficiently long, trajectory of a stationary nonequilibrium process. This part ends with a remarkable application of the method to the analysis of biological data, in this case, the fluctuations of a hair bundle. The third part studies the energetics of systems that undergo symmetry breaking transitions. These theoretical ideas lead to, among other things, an experimental realization of a Szilard engine using manipulated colloids. This work has the potential for important applications ranging from the analysis of biological media to the design of novel artificial nano-machinesPPN: PPN: 1658627261Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-PHA
IntroductionSmall-scale thermodynamics -- Irreversibility and dissipation -- Dissipation and kullback-leibler divergence -- Estimating the kullback-leibler divergence -- A case study: the flashing ratchet -- Application to biology: the ear hair bundle -- Experimental tests and applications of stochastic Thermodynamics -- Energetics of symmetry breaking -- Effective heating with random forces -- Conclusions -- Conclusions and outlook.
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