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PV: Plenarvorträge

PV IV

PV IV: Plenary Talk

Monday, March 27, 2006, 18:00–18:45, HSZ 01

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of microscopic systems — •Christopher Jarzynski — Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-13 Complex Systems MS B213, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

In recent years it has been realized that the equilibrium properties of a system are subtly encoded in the fluctuations of the system when it is driven far from equilibrium. I will discuss the theoretical foundations of these results, as well as potential applications to the numerical estimation of free energy differences, and to the analysis of single-molecule experiments.