@article{andrieux:150601, title = {Entropy Production and Time Asymmetry in Nonequilibrium Fluctuations}, author = {D. Andrieux and P. Gaspard and S. Ciliberto and N. Garnier and S. Joubaud and A. Petrosyan}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, number = {15}, pages = {150601}, publisher = {APS}, url = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v98/e150601}, volume = {98}, year = {2007}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d3f0e67942afdcded3c689280a6cf27e/andreab}, abstract = { The time-reversal symmetry of nonequilibrium fluctuations is experimentally investigated in two out- of-equilibrium systems: namely, a Brownian particle in a trap moving at constant speed and an electric circuit with an imposed mean current. The dynamical randomness of their nonequilibrium fluctuations is characterized in terms of the standard and time-reversed entropies per unit time of dynamical systems theory. We present experimental results showing that their difference equals the thermodynamic entropy production in units of Boltzmann’s constant. }, eid = {150601}, collaboration = {}, numpages = {4}, keywords = {brownian dynamics entropy experiments flictuations imported nonequilibrium physics processes stochastic } }