Seminar
Irreversible Work and Equilibrium Free Energy Differences
Dr. Christopher Jarzynski
Los Alamos National Laboratories
Los Alamos, NM
Thursday, February 19, 1998
3:00 pm
3269 Beckman Institute
I will present a generalization, to IRREVERSIBLE processes, of the well-known relation between reversible work and free energy differences. I will then discuss a generalization of this result, as well as potential applications in the context of numerical methods for computing free energy differences.