Thursday, April 25, 2013

1304.6502 (Sourabh Lahiri et al.)

Fluctuation theorems in inhomogenious media under coarse graining    [PDF]

Sourabh Lahiri, Shubhashis Rana, A. M. Jayannavar
We compare the fluctuation relations for work and entropy in underdamped and overdamped systems, when the friction coefficient of the medium is space-dependent. We find that these relations remain unaffected in both cases. However, for the overdamped system, the analysis is more involved, and a blind application of normal rules of calculus would lead to inconsistent results.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6502

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