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Work fluctuations in a time-dependent harmonic potential: Rigorous results beyond the overdamped limit
We investigate the stochastic motion of a Brownian particle in the harmonic potential with a time-dependent force constant. It may describe the motion of a colloidal particle in an optical trap where the potential well is formed by a time-dependent field. We use the path integral formalism to solve the …