Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems / by Édgar Roldán

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Roldán, Édgar [aut]

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

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Hochschulschrift

Additional physical formats: 9783319070780 | Druckausg.: 978-331-90707-8-0 MSC: MSC: *82-02 | 82C35 | 82B35LOC classification:

QC310.15-319

DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07079-7Online resources:

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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

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