Strong-coupling stochastic thermodynamics and time reversal

by Prof. Erik Aurell (KTH)

Tuesday 5 Dec 2017, 13:30 → 14:30 Europe/Stockholm

Strong-coupling stochastic thermodynamics (SCST) is formulated as Hamiltonian dynamics of an observed system interacting strongly with another unobserved system. Different versions of STSC are shown to be in one-to-one relation with different initial conditions of the unobserved system and its time reversal. The proposals of Seifert (2016) and Jarzynski (2017) are shown to be related to a conditional equilibrium for the unobserved system. This is work in progress motivated by the critique of Talkner and Hänggi (2016) and the recent paper by Miller and Anders (2017).