Inflow rate, a time-symmetric observable obeying fluctuation relations

Abstract

While entropy changes are the usual subject of fluctuation theorems, we seek fluctuation relations involving time-symmetric quantities, namely observables that do not change sign if the trajectories are observed backward in time. We find detailed and integral fluctuation relations for the (time integrated) difference between "entrance rate" and escape rate in mesoscopic jump systems. Such "inflow rate", which is even under time reversal, represents the discrete-state equivalent of the phase space contraction rate. Indeed, it becomes minus the divergence of forces in the continuum limit to overdamped diffusion. This establishes a formal connection between reversible deterministic systems and irreversible stochastic ones, confirming that fluctuation theorems are largely independent of the details of the underling dynamics.

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