• MINI-COURSE ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NONEQUILIBRIUM  STATISTICAL PHYSICS
  Weizmann Institute of Science – Drory Seminar Room, Physics Building
  Kirone Mallick   CEA, Saclay

  Sunday 29th April – at 15:00 hrs – Download presentation file
  Monday 30th April – at 14:00 hrs
  Tuesday 1st May – at 15:00 hrs
  Wednesday 2nd May (tentative) 15:00

  The aim of these lectures is to explain some remarkable recent results that are valid for systems far from equilibrium. These results, known as the Work Identities (Jarzynski, Crooks) and the Fluctuation Theorem (Cohen, Evans, Gallavotti and Morriss), quantify transient violations of the second principle. They rely on the fundamental time-reversal symmetry satisfied by most of the physical processes considered in statistical mechanics. During the last decade, these seminal results have been extended to various physical situations: we shall give a unified mathematical description of these generalizations and put a special emphasis on large deviation functions. These functions are expected to play, for systems out of equilibrium, a role akin to that of thermodynamic potentials. These concepts will be applied to simple systems such as the Brownian ratchet model for molecular motors and the asymmetric exclusion process.

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