Recent progress in fluctuation theorems and free energy recovery

Details Recent progress in fluctuation theorems and free energy recovery Recent progress in fluctuation theorems and free energy recovery

2011-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/1101.3174v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

15 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

In this note we review recent progress about fluctuation relations and their applicability to free energy recovery in single molecule experiments. We underline the importance of the operational definition for the mechanical work and the non-invariance of fluctuation relations under Galilean transformations, both aspects currently amenable to experimental test. Finally we describe a generalization of the Crooks fluctuation relation useful to recover free energies of partially equilibrated states and thermodynamic branches.

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