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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.
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| Verlag | Springer International Publishing |
| Ersterscheinung | 17. September 2016 |
| Maße | 23.5 cm x 15.5 cm |
| Gewicht | 3635 Gramm |
| Format | Softcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9783319383842 |
| Auflage | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 |
| Seiten | 211 |
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