Introduction to nonequilibrium work relations

Prelegent(ci)

Daniel K. Wójcik

Afiliacja

Instytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. M. Nenckiego

Termin

24 stycznia 2007 16:15

Pokój

p. 5840

Seminarium

Seminarium Zakładu Biomatematyki i Teorii Gier

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Nonequilibrium work relations discovered by Chris Jarzynski are an example of symmetries found recently for several classes of nonequilibrium problems. These symmetries typically connect probability of a given process with that of its "reverse". I will briefly introduce Jarzynski relations, sketch a proof in a special case and illustrate them with a recent experiment on stretching DNA.

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