Dissipation Bounds All Steady-State Current Fluctuations

Near equilibrium, small current fluctuations are described by a Gaussian distribution with a linear-response variance regulated by the dissipation. Here, we demonstrate that dissipation still plays a dominant role in structuring large fluctuations arbitrarily far from equilibrium. In particular, we...

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Main Authors: Perunov, Nikolay, England, Jeremy L., Gingrich, Todd, Horowitz, Jordan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101786
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