NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL PHYSICS TODAY: Proceedings of the 11th Granada Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics
from 13-09-2010 to 17-09-2010
[en] Fluctuation relations are a set of remarkable relations obeyed by a large class of systems and arbitrarily far from equilibrium. It is interesting to discuss the implications of these relations for molecular motors, which are chemically driven enzymes. These enzymes operate stochastically at the molecular level and for these reasons undergo large thermal fluctuations. Using simple ratchet models of molecular motors, the various forms of fluctuation relations can be illustrated in a simple way. In the linear regime, finite time fluctuation relations imply specific modified fluctuation-dissipation relations.
[UMR CNRS Gulliver 7083, ESPCI > Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique,]
