Jarzynski Equality and Irreversibility
arXiv:1303.3756
Abstract
Using methods of phenomenological non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the proof is performed that Jarzynski's equality is only valid in the reversible limit and that a conclusion to non-equilibrium inequalities concerning free energy and work is not possible and therefore not allowed.
This paper has been withdrawn by the author because Jarzynski's equality takes also processes into consideration which do not satisfy the 2nd law. Consequently, a modified non-equilibrium thermodynamics has to be developped taking into account the "anti-irreversible admixtures"