Condensed Matter > Statistical Mechanics
[Submitted on 27 Apr 2011 (v1), last revised 9 Aug 2011 (this version, v2)]
Title:Second law and Landauer principle far from equilibrium
Download PDFAbstract: The amount of work that is needed to change the state of a system in contact with a heat bath between specified initial and final nonequilibrium states is at least equal to the corresponding equilibrium free energy difference plus (resp. minus) temperature times the information of the final (resp. the initial) state relative to the corresponding equilibrium distributions.
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From: Massimiliano Esposito [view email][v1] Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:37:59 UTC (13 KB)
[v2] Tue, 9 Aug 2011 22:53:27 UTC (14 KB)
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