Colloquium: How thermodynamics becomes stochastic — a short exploration of recent advances in statistical physics
APA
(2020). Colloquium: How thermodynamics becomes stochastic — a short exploration of recent advances in statistical physics. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research. https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/2192
MLA
Colloquium: How thermodynamics becomes stochastic — a short exploration of recent advances in statistical physics. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, Mar. 11, 2020, https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/2192
BibTex
@misc{ scivideos_SAIFR:2192, doi = {}, url = {https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/2192}, author = {}, keywords = {ICTP-SAIFR, IFT, UNESP}, language = {en}, title = {Colloquium: How thermodynamics becomes stochastic {\textemdash} a short exploration of recent advances in statistical physics}, publisher = { ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research}, year = {2020}, month = {mar}, note = {SAIFR:2192 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/2192}} }
Abstract
Stochastic thermodynamics is a recently established discipline of statistical physics.It explores fundamental aspects of non-equilibrium processes by applying and extending concepts from equilibrium thermodynamics to the non-equilibrium realm, typically on thelevel of single particle trajectories monitored over the entire system evolution. This approach provides an adequate framework to investigate the behaviour of ``small systems’’ on mesoscopic scales for which thermal fluctuations may have a significant or even dominant effect on the general system properties.We consider such small systems consisting of so-called Brownian particles (like colloids in suspension or biological macromolecules in a cell). After introducing the standard model for Brownian motion, we briefly describe the ideas and concepts leading to a (trajectory-wise) thermodynamic characterization of Brownian motion, and finally elaborateon central results from stochastic thermodynamics. As a refinement of the second law of thermodynamics, the most famous amongst these results are probably the fluctuation theorems.