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Comment on ``Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamicsfor Small Systems and Short Time Scales''

S. Tasaki, I. Terasaki, T. Monnai

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0208154

Abstract

The experimental verification of the fluctuation theorem by Wang et al. is explained in terms of a simple Langevin dynamics. This implies that the entropy consuming trajectories found by Wang et al. are fluctuations generated by a random force and do not violate the second law.

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