Crooks: entropy production fluctuation theorem and nonequilibrium work

What changed

Related forward/reverse nonequilibrium work statistics to free-energy difference under microscopic reversibility.

Scientific scope

The record is Crooks’s sole-author 1999 paper, preceded by a January 1999 preprint and received in February. It remains distinct from Jarzynski’s equality, earlier fluctuation relations and later quantum extensions.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Crooks’s sole-author 1999 paper, preceded by a January 1999 preprint and received in February. It remains distinct from Jarzynski’s equality, earlier fluctuation relations and later quantum extensions.

Contributors

• Gavin E. Crooks · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• APS Crooks fluctuation-theorem paper
• Crooks preprint

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