Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: We discuss a non-equilibrium statistical system on a graph or network. Particles are injected, interact with each other, and traverse and leave the graph in a stochastic manner. We show that under the assumption of constancy of a subset of parameters, the system demonstrates the universality of the statistics of the particle currents. In systems connected to a heat bath, this universality leads to fluctuation relations that forbid distinguishing stochastic currents in a strongly driven regime from the currents in thermodynamic equilibrium. We apply this universality to enabling examples from mesoscopic electronics and biochemistry.
Authors: V Y Chernyak, M Chertkov, N A Sinitsyn
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: EMT/MISC: Collaborative Research: Harnessing Statistical Physics for Computing and Communication, G286898171, G310521049, G3700687868, G5083158263, G5657628048, Collaborative Research: Designing non-autonomous molecular machines, Theoretical Development of Nonlinear Surface-Selective Spectroscopies of Hydrogen-Bonded Systems, G75892134
OpenAlex ID: W1974946837