Validation of the Jarzynski relation for a system with strong thermal coupling: an isothermal ideal gas model

Details Validation of the Jarzynski relation for a system with strong thermal coupling: an isothermal ideal gas model Validation of the Jarzynski relation for a system with strong thermal coupling: an isothermal ideal gas model

2006-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607575v3

Physical Review E 74, 061117 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.061117

We revisit the paradigm of an ideal gas under isothermal conditions. A moving piston performs work on an ideal gas in a container that is strongly coupled to a heat reservoir. The thermal coupling is modelled by stochastic scattering at the boundaries. In contrast to recent studies of an adiabatic ideal gas with a piston [R.C. Lua and A.Y. Grosberg, \textit{J. Phys. Chem. B} 109, 6805 (2005); I. Bena et al., \textit{Europhys. Lett.} 71, 879 (2005)], container and piston stay in contact with the heat bath during the work process. Under this condition the heat reservoir as well as the system depend on the work parameter $\lambda$ and microscopic reversibility is broken for a moving piston. Our model is thus not included in the class of systems for which the non-equilibrium work theorem has been derived rigorously either by Hamiltonian [C. Jarzynski, \textit{J. Stat. Mech.} P09005 (2004)] or stochastic methods [G.E. Crooks, \textit{J. Stat. Phys.} 90, 1481 (1998)]. Nevertheless the validity of the non-equilibrium work theorem is confirmed both numerically for a wide range of parameter values and analytically in the limit of a very fast moving piston, i.e. in the far non-equilibrium regime.

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