I review single-molecule experiments (SMEs) in biological physics. Recent technological
developments have provided the tools to design and build scientific instruments of high …

During the 1980's there were many developments regarding the nonequilibrium statistical
mechanics of dense classical atomic fluids. These developments have had a major impact …

Thermodynamics, a scientific discipline inherited from the 18th century, is facing new
challenges in the description of nonequilibrium small (sometimes also called mesoscopic) …

We examine classical, transient fluctuation theorems within the unifying framework of
Langevin dynamics. We explicitly distinguish between the effects of non-conservative forces …

A valuable introduction for newcomers as well as an important reference and source of
inspiration for established researchers, this book provides an up-to-date summary of central …

The Jarzynski identity (JI) relates nonequilibrium work averages to thermodynamic free
energy differences. It was shown in a recent contribution [MA Cuendet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 …

We describe some solvable models which illustrate the Jarzynski theorem and related
fluctuation theorems. We consider a charged particle in the presence of a magnetic field in a …

The Jarzynski equality and the fluctuation theorem relate equilibrium free energy differences
to nonequilibrium measurements of the work. These relations extend to single-molecule …

The probability distribution of the entropy production for the effusion of an ideal gas between
two compartments is calculated explicitly. The fluctuation theorem is verified. The analytic …

In this paper, we establish a large deviation principle for the entropy production rate of
possible non-stationary, centered stable Gauss–Markov chains, verifying the Gallavotti …