Comment on ``Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamicsfor Small Systems and Short Time Scales''

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2002-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208154v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

1 page with 1 eps figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Abstract was deleted, and the 1st paragraph was thoroughly revised

Scientific paper

The experimental verification of the fluctuation theorem by Wang et al. is
explained in terms of a simple Langevin dynamics. This implies that the entropy
consuming trajectories found by Wang et al. are fluctuations generated by a
random force and do not violate the second law.

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