Fluctuation Relations: A Pedagogical Overview
Published 11 February 2013
Richard E. Spinney, Ian J. Ford
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This chapter contains sections titled: Preliminaries Entropy and the Second Law Stochastic Dynamics Entropy Generation and Stochastic Irreversibility Entropy Production in the Overdamped Limit Entropy, Stationarity, and Detailed Balance A General Fluctuation Theorem Further Results Fluctuation Relations for Reversible Deterministic Systems Examples of the Fluctuation Relations in Action Final Remarks References
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