Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems

Presentations

• The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 8, 2007, 9:15 AM – March 8, 2007, 9:51 AM

  Authors

  • Felix Ritort

    • Universitat de Barcelona
    • Department of Fundamental Physics, University of Barcelona
    • University of Barcelona

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• Activation barrier scaling and crossover for noise-induced switching in a micromechanical parametric oscillator

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 9:51 AM – March 8, 2007, 10:03 AM

  Authors

  • Corey Stambaugh

    • University of Florida

  • Ho Bun Chan

    • University of Florida

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• Scaling crossovers in activated escape of nonequilibrium systems: a resonantly driven oscillator

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 10:03 AM – March 8, 2007, 10:15 AM

  Authors

  • Oleg Kogan

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Ira Schwartz

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Mark Dykman

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
    • Michigan State University

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• Spontaneous symmetry breaking in parametrically driven atomic trap and measurement of dynamic critical exponents

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 10:15 AM – March 8, 2007, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Wonho Jhe

    • Seoul National University

  • Myoung-Sun Heo

    • Seoul National University

  • Yonghee Kim

    • Seoul National University

  • Kiwhan Kim

    • Seoul National University

  • Heung-Ryoul Noh

    • Chonnam National University

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• Equilibrium theory for a particle pulled by a moving optical trap

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 10:27 AM – March 8, 2007, 10:39 AM

  Authors

  • Dean Astumian

    • University of Maine

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• Energy and efficiency optimization of a Brownian heat engine

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 10:39 AM – March 8, 2007, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Mulugeta Bekele

    • Department of Physics, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Yeneneh Yalew

    • Eindhoven Unversity of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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• Relationships involving spatial transitions for Brownian particles within a potential-well.

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 10:51 AM – March 8, 2007, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Ross Brody

    • University of Maine

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• Analytical calculation of Jarzynski free-energy estimator bias

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 11:03 AM – March 8, 2007, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Matteo Palassini

    • Department of Fundamental Physics, University of Barcelona

  • Nikos Skantzos

    • Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  • Felix Ritort

    • Universitat de Barcelona
    • Department of Fundamental Physics, University of Barcelona
    • University of Barcelona

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• Exact equality between dissipation and irreversibility

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 11:15 AM – March 8, 2007, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Ryoichi Kawai

    • University of Alabama at Birmingham
    • University Of Alabama at Birmingham

  • Juan M. R. Parrondo

    • Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  • Christian Van den Broeck

    • University of Hasselt

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• Free Energy Surface Reconstruction Using Jarzynski's Equality

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 11:27 AM – March 8, 2007, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Ching-Hwa Kiang

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Rice University

  • Nolan Harris

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Rice University

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