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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Fluctuations, linear response and heat flux of an aging system

J. R. Gomez-Solano, A. Petrosyan and S. Ciliberto

We measure the fluctuations of the position of a Brownian particle confined by an optical trap in an aging gelatin droplet after a fast quench. Its linear response to an external perturbation is also measured. We compute the spontaneous heat flux from the particle to the bath due to the non-equilibrium formation of the gel. We show that the mean heat flux is quantitatively related to the violation of the equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation theorem as a measure of the broken detailed balance during the aging process.

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