Fluctuation theorem
Teorema sobre la fluctuación de entropía
- Date
- 1993 · confidence low
- Place
- Canberra, Australia
- Credited to
- Formulated by Denis Evans, Ezechiel G. D. Cohen, and Gary Morriss in 1993, and proved with generality by Giovanni Gallavotti and Cohen in 1995.
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Statistical mechanics result quantifying the relative probability that the entropy of a system away from equilibrium will increase or decrease over a given time interval, extending the second law to small, non-equilibrium systems.
What it led to
- Extension of the second law of thermodynamics to the nanoscale
- Theoretical foundation of modern stochastic thermodynamics
- Applications in the biophysics of molecular motors