A note on non-equilibrium work fluctuati
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M. Suman Kalyan; G. Anjan Prasad; V.S.S. Sastry; K.P.N. Murthy
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Article
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2011
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We consider in this paper, a few important issues in non-equilibrium work fluctuations and their relations to equilibrium free energies. First we show that the Jarzynski identity can be viewed as a cumulant expansion of work. For a switching process which is nearly quasistatic the work distribution