18 Nov 2022
Coffee breaks and discussion groups
Time
Venue
First Floor Audrey Wood Meeting Room
Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Speaker(s)
Francesco Mori
Seminar series
Cross-TP discussions
Abstract
I will discuss how the laws of thermodynamics apply to microscopic systems, where fluctuations are prevalent. The talk will focus on a milestone paper by C. Jarzynski [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2690 (1997)], that announced the discovery of a universal relation for work fluctuations, known today as Jarzynski equality.
References
Jarzynski, Christopher. "Nonequilibrium equality for free energy differences." Physical Review Letters 78.14 (1997): 2690.
Jarzynski, Christopher. "Equalities and inequalities: Irreversibility and the second law of thermodynamics at the nanoscale." Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 2.1 (2011): 329-351.