A Dicussion Group of Graduate Students at IMSc

This page contains the details that come out of the discussions held almost each week on Saturday at IMSc Chennai. A group of graduate students, primarily from Physics and Computational Biology, participate in the discussion.

Present Discussion Topic:

• Stochastic Thermodynamics
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The Upcoming Discussion:

Speaker : Vinay Vaibhav
Date : October 28, 2017, Saturday
Time : 14:00
Venue : Room No. 327 or 326
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Some References:

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• Blickle, Valentin, and Clemens Bechinger. “Realization of a micrometre-sized stochastic heat engine.” Nature Physics 8.2 (2012): 143.
• Sudeesh Krishnamurthy, Subho Ghosh, Dipankar Chatterji, Rajesh Ganapathy and A. K. Sood. “A micrometre-sized heat engine operating between bacterial reservoirs.” Nature Physics 12.12 (2016): 1134.
• Ciliberto, S. “Experiments in stochastic thermodynamics: Short history and perspectives.” Physical Review X 7.2 (2017): 021051.
• Elouard, Cyril, et al. “The role of quantum measurement in stochastic thermodynamics.” npj Quantum Information 3.1 (2017): 9.
• Seifert, Udo. “Entropy production along a stochastic trajectory and an integral fluctuation theorem.” Physical review letters 95.4 (2005): 040602.
• Gillespie, Daniel T. “The mathematics of Brownian motion and Johnson noise.” American Journal of Physics 64.3 (1996): 225-240.
• Lau, Andy WC, and Tom C. Lubensky. “State-dependent diffusion: Thermodynamic consistency and its path integral formulation.” Physical Review E 76.1 (2007): 011123.
• Van Kampen, N. G. “Itô versus stratonovich.” Journal of Statistical Physics 24.1 (1981): 175-187.
• Volpe, Giovanni, and Jan Wehr. “Effective drifts in dynamical systems with multiplicative noise: a review of recent progress.”Reports on Progress in Physics 79.5 (2016): 053901.

• Touchette, Hugo. “The large deviation approach to statistical mechanics.” Physics Reports 478.1 (2009): 1-69.

• Touchette, Hugo. “Introduction to dynamical large deviations of Markov processes.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06492 (2017).

• Blickle, Valentin, et al. “Einstein relation generalized to nonequilibrium.” Physical review letters 98.21 (2007): 210601.

• Speck, T., and U. Seifert. “Restoring a fluctuation-dissipation theorem in a nonequilibrium steady state.” EPL (Europhysics Letters) 74.3 (2006): 391.

Archived Discussions:

• Some of the old discussions are archived here.