title: Current fluctuations in nonequilibrium diffusive systems: an additivity principle.
abstract: We formulate a simple additivity principle allowing one to calculate the whole distribution of current fluctuations through a large one dimensional system in contact with two reservoirs at unequal densities from the knowledge of its first two cumulants. This distribution (which in general is non-Gaussian) satisfies the Gallavotti-Cohen symmetry and generalizes the one predicted recently for the symmetric simple exclusion process. The additivity principle can be used to study more complex diffusive networks including loops.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, CNRS-UMR 7599, Universités Paris VI & VII, 4 place Jussieu, Case 188, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France. bodineau@math.jussieu.fr
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authors.lastname: Bodineau
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authors.lastname: Derrida