Reply to Comment on "Failure of the work-Hamiltonian connection for free-energy calculations" by Horowitz and Jarzynski

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dc.creatorVilar, J. M. G.
dc.creatorRubi, J. M.
dc.date2008-08-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:58:12Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:58:12Z
dc.descriptionWe show that the Comment [arXiv:0808.1224] by Horowitz and Jarzynski obtains as a main result a general free energy change for a harmonic system that in the macroscopic limit does not recover the textbook expression for the energy change of a Hookean spring. The reason is that Horowitz and Jarzynski improperly identify work with parametric changes of the Hamiltonian instead of with the standard quantity, force times displacement.
dc.descriptionTo appear in Physical Review Letters
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3271
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3271
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/167632
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleReply to Comment on "Failure of the work-Hamiltonian connection for free-energy calculations" by Horowitz and Jarzynski
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