TY  - GEN
AB  - After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation. He develops a method based on recent results on fluctuation theorems that is able to estimate dissipation using only information acquired in a single, sufficiently long, trajectory of a stationary nonequilibrium process. This part ends with a remarkable application of the method to the analysis of biological data, in this case, the fluctuations of a hair bundle. The third part studies the energetics of systems that undergo symmetry breaking transitions. These theoretical ideas lead to, among other things, an experimental realization of a Szilard engine using manipulated colloids. This work has the potential for important applications ranging from the analysis of biological media to the design of novel artificial nano-machines.
AU  - Roldán, Édgar,
CN  - SpringerLink
CN  - QC318.I7
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-07079-7
DO  - doi
ID  - 705833
KW  - Nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
KW  - Energy dissipation.
KW  - Statistical mechanics.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07079-7
N1  - "Doctoral thesis accepted by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain."
N2  - After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation. He develops a method based on recent results on fluctuation theorems that is able to estimate dissipation using only information acquired in a single, sufficiently long, trajectory of a stationary nonequilibrium process. This part ends with a remarkable application of the method to the analysis of biological data, in this case, the fluctuations of a hair bundle. The third part studies the energetics of systems that undergo symmetry breaking transitions. These theoretical ideas lead to, among other things, an experimental realization of a Szilard engine using manipulated colloids. This work has the potential for important applications ranging from the analysis of biological media to the design of novel artificial nano-machines.
SN  - 9783319070797
SN  - 3319070797
T1  - Irreversibility and dissipation in microscopic systems
TI  - Irreversibility and dissipation in microscopic systems
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07079-7
ER  -