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| ISBN: | 9783319070797
3319070797
3319070789
9783319070780
9783319070780
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| Notes: | "Doctoral thesis accepted by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain."
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 25, 2014).
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Printed edition: 9783319070780
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-07079-7
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