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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 28: Statistical physics far from thermal equilibrium

DY 28.3: Talk

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 15:00–15:15, A 060

Interaction effects and work theorems — •Mario Einax and Philipp Maass — Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany

We present an exact waiting time Monte-Carlo algorithm (WTMC) to simulate systems that follow a dynamics given by a master equation with time-dependent rates. The algorithm can be conveniently used to investigate many particle systems driven out of equilibrium by time-dependent external fields. We illustrate the method for a one-dimensional Ising-spin system with Glauber dynamics. In particular we compute the probability distributions of the fluctuating work and heat. Our results are compared to analytical findings and tested against various non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems.