The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems
By Felix Ritort. 2005
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The interactions of tiny objects with their environments are dominated by thermal fluctuations. Guided by theory and assisted by new micromanipulation tools, scientists have begun to study such interactions in detail.
Subfields: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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In Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- P. Hänggi
- C. Bechinger
- V. Blickle
- Christopher Jarzynski
- Felix Ritort
- Fabio Marchesoni
- Ignacio Tinoco Jr.
- Carlos Bustamante
In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- P. Hänggi
- U. Seifert
- C. Bechinger
- Felix Ritort
- V. Blickle
- Christopher Jarzynski
- Fabio Marchesoni
- Andrea Puglisi
Citations in the corpus
- Nonequilibrium fluctuations in small systems: From physics to biology (2007, background): “Most of the excitement comes also from the more or less recent observation that biological matter has successfully exploited the smallness of biomolecular structures (such as complexes made out of nucleic acids and proteins) and the fact that they are embedded in nonequilibrium environment to become”
- Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale (2008, background): “This result, also experimentally demonstrated by Bustamante et al. (2005), came as much of a surprise because it meant that information about macroscopic equilibrium was somehow buried inside individual, randomly fluctuating microscopic systems far from equilibrium, see also (Crooks, 1999;…”
- Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies (2005, methodology): “Relation (1) quantifies hysteretic effects in the pulling experiment: work values larger than G ∆ occur most often along the unfolding path while (absolute) values smaller than G ∆ occur more often along the refolding path.”
- Realization of a micrometre-sized stochastic heat engine (2011, methodology): “From equation (1) it is obvious that—in agreement with a macroscopic Stirling engine—the isochoric transitions in the microscopic Stirling engine ((2) → (3), (4) → (1) in Fig.”