title: Illustrative example of the relationship between dissipation and relative entropy.
abstract: Kawai, Parrondo, and Van den Broeck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 080602 (2007)] have recently established a quantitative relationship between dissipated work and a microscopic, information-theoretic measure of irreversibility. We illustrate this result using the exactly solvable system of a Brownian particle in a dragged harmonic trap.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Jordan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Horowitz
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jarzynski