A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO JARZYNSKI'S IDENTITY IN NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS

DOI10.1142/S0219025709003604MaRDI QIDQ5325568zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Evelina Shamarova

Publication date 10 August 2009

Published in Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701360

zbMATH Keywords

nonequilibrium statistical mechanicsJarzynski's identitynonequilibrium work theoremprobability measures on phase space paths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Transition functions, generators and resolvents (60J35) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

Abstract: We develop a mathematical approach to the nonequilibrium work theorem which is traditionally referred to in statistical mechanics as Jarzynski's identity. We suggest a mathematically rigorous formulation and proof of the identity.

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