Background Reading

 

Selected reviews.

  1. 1.C. Jarzynski, Equalities and Inequalities: Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale, Annu. Rev. Cond. Matt. Phys. 2 (2011) 329-351.

  2. 2.J. P. Crutchfield, Between Order and Chaos, Nature Physics 8 (January 2012) 17-24.
    [Abstract] Abstract at Nature Physics Addendum Corrected version

  3. 3.D. Mandal and C. Jarzynski, Work and Information Processing in a Solvable Model of Maxwell's Demon, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109:29 (2012) 11641-11645.

  4. 4.R. Klages, W. Just, C. Jarzynski, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Small Systems: Fluctuation Relations and Beyond, Wiley (New York) 2013.