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  title info:
    title: Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems
  name:
    name part: Roldán, Édgar.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 211 p. 75 illus., 41 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation. He develops a method based on recent results on fluctuation theorems that is able to estimate dissipation using only information acquired in a single, sufficiently long, trajectory of a stationary nonequilibrium process. This part ends with a remarkable application of the method to the analysis of biological data, in this case, the fluctuations of a hair bundle. The third part studies the energetics of systems that undergo symmetry breaking transitions. These theoretical ideas lead to, among other things, an experimental realization of a Szilard engine using manipulated colloids. This work has the potential for important applications ranging from the analysis of biological media to the design of novel artificial nano-machines.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Small-scale thermodynamics -- Irreversibility and dissipation -- Dissipation and kullback-leibler divergence -- Estimating the kullback-leibler divergence -- A case study: the flashing ratchet -- Application to biology: the ear hair bundle -- Experimental tests and applications of stochastic Thermodynamics -- Energetics of symmetry breaking -- Effective heating with random forces -- Conclusions -- Conclusions and outlook.
  note: by Édgar Roldán.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Phase transitions (Statistical physics)
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  classification: QC310.15-319
  classification: 536.7
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  identifier: 9783319070797
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07079-7
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    record change date: 20151031111130.0
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