Trajectory Class Fluctuation Theorem

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Main Authors: Wimsatt, Gregory, Boyd, Alexander B., Crutchfield, James P.
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Published: 2022
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author Wimsatt, Gregory
Boyd, Alexander B.
Crutchfield, James P.
author_facet Wimsatt, Gregory
Boyd, Alexander B.
Crutchfield, James P.
contents The Trajectory Class Fluctuation Theorem (TCFT) substantially strengthens the Second Law of Thermodynamics -- that, in point of fact, can be a rather weak bound on resource fluxes. Practically, it improves empirical estimates of free energies, a task known to be statistically challenging, and has diagnosed successful and failed information processing in experimentally-implemented Josephson-junction information engines. The development here justifies that empirical analysis, explicating its mathematical foundations. The TCFT reveals the thermodynamics induced by macroscopic system transformations for each measurable subset of system trajectories. In this, it directly combats the statistical challenge of extremely rare events that dominate thermodynamic calculations. And, it reveals new forms of free energy -- forms that can be solved for analytically and practically estimated. Conceptually, the TCFT unifies a host of previously-established fluctuation theorems, interpolating from Crooks' Detailed Fluctuation Theorem (single trajectories) to Jarzynski's Equality (trajectory ensembles).
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spellingShingle Trajectory Class Fluctuation Theorem
Wimsatt, Gregory
Boyd, Alexander B.
Crutchfield, James P.
Statistical Mechanics
Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
The Trajectory Class Fluctuation Theorem (TCFT) substantially strengthens the Second Law of Thermodynamics -- that, in point of fact, can be a rather weak bound on resource fluxes. Practically, it improves empirical estimates of free energies, a task known to be statistically challenging, and has diagnosed successful and failed information processing in experimentally-implemented Josephson-junction information engines. The development here justifies that empirical analysis, explicating its mathematical foundations. The TCFT reveals the thermodynamics induced by macroscopic system transformations for each measurable subset of system trajectories. In this, it directly combats the statistical challenge of extremely rare events that dominate thermodynamic calculations. And, it reveals new forms of free energy -- forms that can be solved for analytically and practically estimated. Conceptually, the TCFT unifies a host of previously-established fluctuation theorems, interpolating from Crooks' Detailed Fluctuation Theorem (single trajectories) to Jarzynski's Equality (trajectory ensembles).
title Trajectory Class Fluctuation Theorem
topic Statistical Mechanics
Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03612