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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 2: Stochastic thermodynamics and information processing

DY 2.1: Invited Talk

Monday, March 20, 2017, 09:30–10:00, HÜL 186

Stochastic thermodynamics and the thermodynamic uncertainty relation — •Udo Seifert — Universität Stuttgart

Stochastic thermodynamics is a universal framework to describe driven systems in a thermodynamically consistent way. It has lead to universal relations like the Jarzynski relation and the fluctuation theorem. More recently, a new inequality, the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, has been found. It provides a constraint on the dispersion of any current in terms of the overall entropy production and can also be framed as bounding the inevitable cost of precision in any non-equilibrium process. I will discuss the origin of this relation, the generalization to a bound on extreme fluctuations, and show a few of its applications.