Article: Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies

D. Collin, F. Ritort, C. Jarzynski, S. B. Smith, I. Tinoco Jr., and C. Bustamante, Nature 437, 231-234 (2005)

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Further reading:

• Biological physics: Rare returns on lost effort, Nature (2005)
• The Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems, Physics Today (2005)
• The Unusual Thermodynamics of Microscopic Systems, Physics Today (2002)

References:

• The Entropy Production Fluctuation Theorem and the Nonequilibrium Work Relation for Free Energy Differences (1999) Original reference.
• Path Ensemble Averages in Systems Driven Far From Equilibrium (2000) Sequel.
• Nonequilibrium Measurements of Free Energy Differences for Microscopically Reversible Markovian Systems (1998) Many of the central ideas were developed in this prequel.
• Excursions in Statistical Dynamics (1999)