Current fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems
Higgs Centre colloquium
Current fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems
- Event time: 1:30pm
- Event date: 5th July 2013
- Speaker: Professor Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris, France.)
- Location: Lecture Theatre B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Abstract
This talk will review a series of results obtained recently on the fluctuations of current in diffusive systems for several geometries: steady state obtained by contact with two reservoirs or two heat baths, system at equilibrium on a ring geometry, two systems at unequal temperatures which are connected at time t=0. Some open questions will also be discussed, in particular the behavior of one dimensional mechanical systems and its similarity with diffusive systems at a phase transition.
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