Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems

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Buch | Hardcover
XXI, 211 Seiten
2014 | 2014
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-07078-0 (ISBN)

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Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems - Édgar Roldán
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After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation. He develops a method based on recent results on fluctuation theorems that is able to estimate dissipation using only information acquired in a single, sufficiently long, trajectory of a stationary nonequilibrium process. This part ends with a remarkable application of the method to the analysis of biological data, in this case, the fluctuations of a hair bundle.

The third part studies the energetics of systems that undergo symmetry breaking transitions. These theoretical ideas lead to, among other things, an experimental realization of a Szilard engine using manipulated colloids.

This work has the potential for important applications ranging from the analysis of biological media to the design of novel artificial nano-machines.

Introduction.- Small-scale thermodynamics.- Irreversibility and dissipation.- Dissipation and kullback-leibler divergence.- Estimating the kullback-leibler divergence.- A case study: the flashing ratchet.- Application to biology: the ear hair bundle.- Experimental tests and applications of stochastic Thermodynamics.- Energetics of symmetry breaking.- Effective heating with random forces.- Conclusions.- Conclusions and outlook.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.7.2014
Reihe/Serie Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo XXI, 211 p. 75 illus., 41 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 520 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Thermodynamik
Schlagworte Brownian Engines • Flashing Ratchets • Fluctuation Theorems • Irreversibility and Dissipation • Kullback-Leibler Divergence • Optical Tweezers • Stochastic Thermodynamics • Thermodynamics in Microscopic Systems
ISBN-10 3-319-07078-9 / 3319070789
ISBN-13 978-3-319-07078-0 / 9783319070780
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