Illustrative example of the relationship between dissipation and relative entropy

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2009 Feb;79(2 Pt 1):021106. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.021106. Epub 2009 Feb 5.

Abstract

Kawai, Parrondo, and Van den Broeck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 080602 (2007)] have recently established a quantitative relationship between dissipated work and a microscopic, information-theoretic measure of irreversibility. We illustrate this result using the exactly solvable system of a Brownian particle in a dragged harmonic trap.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't