Length of time's arrow

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.101.090602MaRDI QIDQ3107643zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Edward H. Feng, G. Crooks

Publication date 26 December 2011

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

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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