Length of time's arrow

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.101.090602zbMATH Open1228.82053arXiv0809.0025WikidataQ82281448 ScholiaQ82281448MaRDI QIDQ3107643FDOQ3107643

Authors: Edward H. Feng, G. Crooks 

Publication date: 26 December 2011

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An unresolved problem in physics is how the thermodynamic arrow of time arises from an underlying time reversible dynamics. We contribute to this issue by developing a measure of time-symmetry breaking, and by using the work fluctuation relations, we determine the time asymmetry of recent single molecule RNA unfolding experiments. We define time asymmetry as the Jensen-Shannon divergence between trajectory probability distributions of an experiment and its time-reversed conjugate. Among other interesting properties, the length of time's arrow bounds the average dissipation and determines the difficulty of accurately estimating free energy differences in nonequilibrium experiments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0025

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

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