I. Bena et al 2005 Europhys. Lett. 71 879 doi:10.1209/epl/i2005-10177-0
I. Bena1, C. Van den Broeck2 and R. Kawai3
Show affiliationsWe 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 P(W) 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.
02.50.-r Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics
Issue 6 (September 2005)
Received 13 June 2005, accepted for publication 19 July 2005, in final form 19 July 2005
Published 10 August 2005
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