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Work fluctuations for a Brownian particle in a harmonic trap with fluctuating locations

dc.contributor.authorPal, Arnab
dc.contributor.authorSabhapandit, Sanjib
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-25T06:50:06Z
dc.date.available2013-04-25T06:50:06Z
dc.date.issued2013-02
dc.descriptionopen Access.en
dc.description.abstractWe consider a Brownian particle in a harmonic trap. The location of the trap is modulated according to an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We investigate the fluctuation of the work done by the modulated trap on the Brownian particle in a given time interval in the steady state. We compute the large deviation as well as the complete asymptotic form of the probability density function of the work done. The theoretical asymptotic forms of the probability density function are in very good agreement with the numerics. We also discuss the validity of the fluctuation theorem for this system.en
dc.identifier.citationPhysical Review E, 2013, Vol.87, p022138en
dc.identifier.issn1539-3755
dc.identifier.issn1550-2376(Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/5567
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Societyen
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0704en
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.022138en
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013PhRvE..87b2138Pen
dc.rights2013 American Physical Societyen
dc.subjectFluctuation phenomenaen
dc.subjectrandom processesen
dc.subjectnoiseen
dc.subjectBrownian motionen
dc.subjectNonequilibriumen
dc.subjectirreversible thermodynamicsen
dc.titleWork fluctuations for a Brownian particle in a harmonic trap with fluctuating locationsen
dc.typeArticleen

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