| Issue |
EPL
Volume 95, Number 4, August 2011
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| Article Number | 40004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/95/40004 | |
| Published online | 04 August 2011 | |
Second law and Landauer principle far from equilibrium
1
Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles - CP 231, Campus Plaine, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, EU
2
Hasselt University - B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium, EU
Received:
27
April
2011
Accepted:
29
June
2011
The amount of work that is needed to change the state of a system in contact with a heat bath between specified initial and final nonequilibrium states is at least equal to the corresponding equilibrium free energy difference plus (respectively, minus) temperature times the information of the final (respectively, the initial) state relative to the corresponding equilibrium distributions.
PACS: 05.70.Ln – Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion / 05.20.-y – Classical statistical mechanics
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