Dissipation Bounds All Steady-State Current Fluctuations
Dissipation Bounds All Steady-State Current Fluctuations
Near equilibrium, small current fluctuations are described by a Gaussian distribution with a linear-response variance regulated by the dissipation. Here, we demonstrate that dissipation still plays a dominant role in structuring large fluctuations arbitrarily far from equilibrium. In particular, we prove a linear-response-like bound on the large deviation function for …