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Nonequilibrium work relations
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Jarzynski's equality: exact equilibrium free energies from irreversible work measurements.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The second law only bounds the average work needed to drive a system between two equilibrium states, \langle W \rangle \ge \Delta F, with equality only in the reversible, infinitely slow limit. Jarzynski (1997) found an exact equality hiding behind that inequality:">

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