Comment on ``Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamicsfor Small Systems and Short Time Scales''

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dc.creatorTasaki, S.
dc.creatorTerasaki, I.
dc.creatorMonnai, T.
dc.date2002-08-08
dc.date2002-09-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:46:46Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:46:46Z
dc.descriptionThe experimental verification of the fluctuation theorem by Wang et al. is explained in terms of a simple Langevin dynamics. This implies that the entropy consuming trajectories found by Wang et al. are fluctuations generated by a random force and do not violate the second law.
dc.description1 page with 1 eps figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Abstract was deleted, and the 1st paragraph was thoroughly revised
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208154
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208154
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/19756
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleComment on ``Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamicsfor Small Systems and Short Time Scales''
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