{
  "id": "cond-mat/0208154",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2002-08-08T06:11:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-09-15T15:00:35.000Z",
  "title": "Comment on ``Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamicsfor Small Systems and Short Time Scales''",
  "authors": [
    "S. Tasaki",
    "I. Terasaki",
    "T. Monnai"
  ],
  "comment": "1 page with 1 eps figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Abstract was deleted, and the 1st paragraph was thoroughly revised",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "The experimental verification of the fluctuation theorem by Wang et al. is explained in terms of a simple Langevin dynamics. This implies that the entropy consuming trajectories found by Wang et al. are fluctuations generated by a random force and do not violate the second law.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2002-09-15T15:00:35.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "thermodynamicsfor small systems",
      "short time scales",
      "second law",
      "experimental demonstration",
      "violations"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 1,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2002cond.mat..8154T"
    }
  }
}