Fluctuation theorem | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-28

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00:00:45 1 Statement of the fluctuation theorem
00:04:10 2 Second law inequality
00:05:41 3 Nonequilibrium partition identity
00:06:45 4 Implications
00:08:48 5 Dissipation function
00:13:44 6 The fluctuation theorem and Loschmidt's paradox
00:16:28 7 Summary
00:19:07 8 See also



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The fluctuation theorem (FT), which originated from statistical mechanics, deals with the relative probability that the entropy of a system which is currently away from thermodynamic equilibrium (i.e., maximum entropy) will increase or decrease over a given amount of time. While the second law of thermodynamics predicts that the entropy of an isolated system should tend to increase until it reaches equilibrium, it became apparent after the discovery of statistical mechanics that the second law is only a statistical one, suggesting that there should always be some nonzero probability that the entropy of an isolated system might spontaneously decrease; the fluctuation theorem precisely quantifies this probability.