Phase transition in the Jarzynski estimator of free energy differences

The transition between a regime in which thermodynamic relations apply only to ensembles of small systems coupled to a large environment and a regime in which they can be used to characterize individual macroscopic systems is analyzed in terms of the change in behavior of the Jarzynski estimator of...

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Main Authors: Suarez Gonzalez, Alberto, Silbey, Robert J., Oppenheim, Irwin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71629