Irreversibility and dissipation in microscopic systems

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Irreversibility and dissipation in microscopic systems

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Édgar Roldán

Creator

• Roldán, Édgar

Author

• Roldán, Édgar

Subject

• Statistical mechanics
• Energy dissipation
• Nonequilibrium thermodynamics

Language

eng

Summary

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

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• Online access with purchase: Springer
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Cataloging source

GW5XE

Dewey number

536.7

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

QC318.I7

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Springer Theses,