Jarzynksi on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Here at the Santa Fe Institute we’re having a workshop on Statistical Physics, Information Processing and Biology. Unfortunately the talks are not being videotaped, so it’s up to me to spread the news of what’s going on here.

Christopher Jarzynski is famous for discovering the Jarzynski equality. We’ve had a good quick explanation of it here on Azimuth:

• Eric Downes, Crooks’ Fluctuation Theorem, Azimuth, 30 April 2011.

We’ve also gotten a proof, where it was called the ‘integral fluctuation...