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dc.contributor.authorSevick, E.
dc.contributor.authorPrabhakar, R.
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Stephen R.
dc.contributor.authorBernhardt, Debra
dc.contributor.editorStephen R Leone
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:18:45Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:18:45Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2009-03-17T06:09:34Z
dc.identifier.issn0066426X
dc.identifier.doi10.1146/annurev.physchem.58.032806.104555
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/21775
dc.description.abstractFluctuation theorems, developed over the past 15 years, have resulted in fundamental breakthroughs in our understanding of how irreversibility emerges from reversible dynamics and have provided new statistical mechanical relationships for free-energy changes. They describe the statistical fluctuations in time-averaged properties of many-particle systems such as fluids driven to nonequilibrium states and provide some of the few analytical expressions that describe nonequilibrium states. Quantitative predictions on fluctuations in small systems that are monitored over short periods can also be made, and therefore the fluctuation theorems allow thermodynamic concepts to be extended to apply to finite systems. For this reason, we anticipate an important role for fluctuation theorems in the design of nanotechnological devices and in the understanding of biological processes. This review discusses these theorems, their physical significance, and results for experimental and model systems.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAnnual Reviews
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttp://physchem.annualreviews.org
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom603
dc.relation.ispartofpageto633
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAnnual Review of Physical Chemistry
dc.relation.ispartofvolume59
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhysical chemistry
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTheoretical and computational chemistry
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3406
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3407
dc.titleFluctuation Theorems
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2008 Annual Reviews. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBernhardt, Debra J.


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