%0 Book Section %1 statphys23_0495 %A Andrieux, D. %A Gaspard, P. %A Ciliberto, S. %A Garnier, N. %A Joubaud, S. %A Petrosyan, A. %B Abstract Book of the XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics %C Genova, Italy %D 2007 %E Pietronero, Luciano %E Loreto, Vittorio %E Zapperi, Stefano %K entropy fluctuations nonequilibrium production statphys23 topic-3 %T Entropy production and time asymmetry in nonequilibrium fluctuations %U http://st23.statphys23.org/webservices/abstract/preview_pop.php?ID_PAPER=495 %X The time-reversal symmetry of nonequilibrium fluctuations is investigated in out-of-equilibrium systems. The dynamical randomness of the nonequilibrium fluctuations is characterized in terms of the standard and time-reversed entropies per unit time of dynamical systems theory. In particular we present experimental results for a Brownian particle in a trap moving at constant speed and for an electric circuit with an imposed mean current showing that their difference equals the thermodynamic entropy production in units of Boltzmann's constant.

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