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Irreversibility and dissipation in microscopic systems Édgar Roldán
Springer Nature - Springer Physics and Astronomy (R0) eBooks 2014 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roldán, Édgar, author.
- Series:
- Springer theses 2190-5053
- Springer Theses 2190-5053
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
- Energy dissipation.
- Statistical mechanics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cham Springer 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- "Doctoral thesis accepted by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain"
- Includes bibliographical references
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 25, 2014)
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9783319070797
- 3319070797
- 3319070789
- 9783319070780
- OCLC:
- 881715411
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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