Inferring broken detailed balance in the absence of observable currents

Non-equilibrium systems with hidden states are relevant for biological systems such as molecular motors. Here the authors introduce a method for quantifying irreversibility in such a system by exploiting the fluctuations in the waiting times of time series data.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ignacio A. Martínez, Gili Bisker, Jordan M. Horowitz, Juan M. R. Parrondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11051-w