| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 71, Number 6, September 2005
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 879 - 885 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10177-0 | |
| Published online | 10 August 2005 | |
Jarzynski equality for the Jepsen gas
1
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva - 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
2
Hasselt University - B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
3
Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham - AL 35294, USA
Received:
13
June
2005
Accepted:
19
July
2005
We illustrate the Jarzynski equality on the exactly solvable
model of an ideal gas in uniform expansion or compression. The
analytical results for the probability density 
of the work
W performed by the gas are compared with the results of
molecular dynamics simulations for a two-dimensional dilute gas
of hard spheres, a prototype for a real, slightly non-ideal gas.
PACS: 02.50.-r – Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics / 05.70.Ln – Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics / 05.20.-y – Classical statistical mechanics
© EDP Sciences, 2005
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