Fluctuation Relations: A Pedagogical Overview

This chapter contains sections titled: Preliminaries Entropy and the Second Law Stochastic Dynamics Entropy Generation and Stochastic Irreversibility Entropy Production in the Overdamped Limit Entropy, Stationarity, and Detailed Balance A General Fluctuation Theorem Further Results Fluctuation Relations for Reversible Deterministic Systems Examples of the Fluctuation Relations in Action Final Remarks References