Test of the Jarzynski and Crooks Fluctuation Relations in an Electronic System
Test of the Jarzynski and Crooks Fluctuation Relations in an Electronic System
Recent progress on micro- and nanometer-scale manipulation has opened the possibility to probe systems small enough that thermal fluctuations of energy and coordinate variables can be significant compared with their mean behavior. We present an experimental study of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in a classical two-state system, namely, a metallic single-electron box. …