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Consider a mesoscopic system coupled to a heat bath at temperature T . Its state follows noisy dynamics under a time-dependent protocol . A trajectory over 0 t is denoted = \{\}_{0}^{} . The corresponding reverse experiment begins from the appropriate final ensemble, applies the reversed protocol, and generates a conjugate path .
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Equation 4 · Physics
The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversibility at Molecular Scale
This equation states a bound: one expression must stay on the indicated side of the other under the article’s assumptions.
Consider a mesoscopic system coupled to a heat bath at temperature T . Its state follows noisy dynamics under a time-dependent protocol . A trajectory over 0 t is denoted = \{\}_{0}^{} . The corresponding reverse experiment begins from the appropriate final ensemble, applies the reversed protocol, and generates a conjugate path .
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