R.Klages, W.Just, C.Jarzynski (Eds.)
Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Small Systems: Fluctuation relations and beyond

smallsys book coverThis book offers a comprehensive picture of nonequilibrium phenomena in nanoscale systems.  Written by internationally recognized experts in this field, it strikes a balance between theory and experiment, and includes in-depth introductions to nonequilibrium fluctuation relations, nonlinear dynamics and transport, single molecule experiments, and molecular diffusion in nanopores.
The authors explore the application of these concepts to nano- and biosystems by cross-linking key methods and ideas from nonequilibrium statistical physics, thermodynamics, stochastic theory and dynamical systems.  By providing an up-to-date survey of small systems physics, the text serves as both a valuable reference for experienced researchers and as an ideal starting point for graduate-level students moving into this newly emerging research field.

Part I: Fluctuation relations
  • Fluctuation relations: A pedagogical overview
  • Fluctuation Relations and the foundations of statistical thermodynamics: A deterministic approach and numerical demonstration
  • Fluctuation relations in small systems: Exact results from the deterministic approach
  • Measuring out of equilibrium fluctuations
  • Recent progress in fluctuation theorems and free energy recovery
  • Information thermodynamics: Maxwell's demon in nonequilibrium dynamics
  • Time-reversal symmetry relations for currents in nonequilibrium stochastic and quantum systems
  • Anomalous fluctuation relations
Part II: Beyond fluctuation relations
  • Out-of-equilibrium generalized fluctuation-disspation relations
  • Anomalous thermal transport in nanostructures
  • Large deviation approach to nonequilibrium systems
  • Lyapunov modes in extended systems
  • Study of single molecule dynamics in mesoporous systems, glasses and living cells

published
as a special volume in the book series Reviews of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity (H.G. Schuster, Ed.) by Wiley-VCH (Weinheim), 428 pages, EUR 129, February 2013; ISBN 978-3-527-41094-1
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Table of Contents:

Authors
Affiliation
Title and abstract
Rainer Klages
n/a Preface
Part I: Fluctuation relations
Theoretical foundations
Chris Jarzynskin/aIntroduction to Part 1
R.Spinney,
Ian Ford
Department of Physics and Astronomy and London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K. Fluctuation relations: a pedagogical overview
J.C.Reid 1,
S.Williams 1,
D.J.Searles 1,
L.Rondoni 2,
Denis Evans 3
1 Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia
2 Dipartimento di Matematica and INFN, Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
3 Research School of Chemistry, Building 35, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Fluctuation Relations and the Foundations of Statistical Thermodynamics: a Deterministic approach and numerical demonstration
Lamberto Rondoni 1,
O.G.Jepps 2
1 Dipartimento di Matematica and INFN, Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
2 School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences and Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane QLD 4111, Australia
Fluctuation Relations in Small Systems: Exact Results from the Deterministic Approach
Experimental foundations
L.Bellon,
R.Gomez-Solano,
A.Petrosyan,
Sergio Ciliberto
Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de Physique, C.N.R.S. UMR5672, 46, Allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
Measuring out of equilibrium fluctuations
A. Alemany,
M. Ribezzi-Crivellari,
Felix Ritort
Small Biosystems Lab, Departament de Fisica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
and
CIBER-BBN de Bioingenieria, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Recent progress in fluctuation theorems and free energy recovery
Further developments
Takahiro Sagawa,
M. Ueda
Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan Information Thermodynamics: Maxwell's Demon in Nonequilibrium Dynamics
Pierre Gaspard Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems & Department of Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Code Postal 231, Campus Plaine, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Time-reversal symmetry relations for currents in nonequilibrium stochastic and quantum systems
Rainer Klages 1,
A.V.Chechkin 2,
P.Dieterich 3,

1 Queen Mary University of London, School of Mathematical Sciences, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
2 Institute for Theoretical Physics NSC KIPT, Akademicheskaya Street 1, Kharkov 61108, Ukraine
3 Institut fuer Physiologie, Medizinische Fakultaet Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstrasse 74, D-01307 Dresden, Germany
Anomalous fluctuation relations
Part II: Beyond fluctuation relations
Wolfram Justn/aIntroduction to Part 2
G.Gradenigo,
A.Puglisi,
A.Sarracino,
D.Villamaina,
Angelo Vulpiani
Dipartimento di Fisica Universita degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Piazzale A. Moro, 2 00185 Roma, Italy Out-of-equilibrium generalized fluctuation-disspation relations
G.Zhang 1,2,
S.Liu 3,2,
Baowen Li 2,3
1 Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
2 Department of Physics and Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
3 NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Singapore 117456
Anomalous thermal transport in nanostructures
Hugo Touchette,
R.J.Harris
Queen Mary University of London, School of Mathematical Sciences, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom Large deviation approach to nonequilibrium systems
H.-L. Yang,
Guenter Radons
Institute of Mechatronics and Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Lyapunov modes in extended systems
Stephan Mackowiak,
Christoph Braeuchle

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Department Chemie, Lehrstuhl fuer Physikalische Chemie I, Butenandtstr. 11, D-81377 Muenchen, Germany Study of Single Molecule Dynamics in Mesoporous Systems, Glasses and Living Cells
last update: 18/03/2013