Derivation of the Crooks Relation and Jarzynskis Identity

The Crooks relation follows from an elegant derivation of Jarzynski s identity using path-sampling ideas [18], For instructive purposes, that derivation is briefly summa-rized here. Consider generating a discrete trajectory z0 - z i . .. z v, where 

In tests using the moving ID Hamiltonian harmonic oscillator, (5.25), a velocity Verlet integrator [24] combined with ttapezoidal integration of W (/.) performed well when compared to the analytic solution. An interesting analysis of how 

This procedure follows, in effect, the derivation of Jarzynski s identity in discrete time [2,18], as outlined in Sect. 5.5. Finally, for Hamiltonian dynamics, one can use (5.23) and calculate the work directly from the difference in total energy between trajectory start and end points. 

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