Entropy production and time asymmetry in nonequilibrium fluctuations

Details Entropy production and time asymmetry in nonequilibrium fluctuations Entropy production and time asymmetry in nonequilibrium fluctuations

2007-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703696v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.150601

The time-reversal symmetry of nonequilibrium fluctuations is experimentally investigated in two out-of-equilibrium systems namely, a Brownian particle in a trap moving at constant speed and an electric circuit with an imposed mean current. The dynamical randomness of their nonequilibrium fluctuations is characterized in terms of the standard and time-reversed entropies per unit time of dynamical systems theory. We present experimental results showing that their difference equals the thermodynamic entropy production in units of Boltzmann's constant.

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