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Gavin Crooks sharpened this two years later into a statement about entire probability distributions rather than a single average. If is the distribution of work values measured over many repetitions of a forward protocol, and is the distribution measured over the time-reversed protocol run from its own correctly defined reverse-equilibrium starting ensemble, the two distributions are related by
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Equation 10 · Evolutionary Physics
The Arrow of Time and the Engine of Evolution
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Gavin Crooks sharpened this two years later into a statement about entire probability distributions rather than a single average. If is the distribution of work values measured over many repetitions of a forward protocol, and is the distribution measured over the time-reversed protocol run from its own correctly defined reverse-equilibrium starting ensemble, the two distributions are related by
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