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Microscopic Reversibility

Microscopic Reversibility is a fundamental principle in statistical mechanics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics which states that, at the microscopic level, every physical process and its time-reversed counterpart occur with equal probability under time-symmetric dynamical laws, thereby ensuring detailed balance in reversible systems.

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Principle Of Microscopic Reversibility

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Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. I.

Lars Onsager · Physical Review · 1931 · 6.6K citations · Full text

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Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. II.

Lars Onsager · Physical Review · 1931 · 5.3K citations · Full text

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On Onsager's Principle of Microscopic Reversibility

H. B. G. Casimir · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1945 · 1.2K citations

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Nonequilibrium Measurements of Free Energy Differences for Microscopically Reversible Markovian Systems

Gavin E. Crooks · Journal of Statistical Physics · 1998 · 1K citations

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Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow

Joel L. Lebowitz · Physics Today · 1993 · 574 citations

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  1. RD
    R. Dean Astumian

    University of Maine, United States

    5 publications · 608 citations

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    Charles H. Bennett

    IBM (United States), United States

    4 publications · 1.2K citations

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    Massimiliano Esposito

    University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    3 publications · 577 citations

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    Debra J. Searles

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    3 publications · 371 citations

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    Donna G. Blackmond

    Scripps Research Institute, United States

    3 publications · 275 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    25 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    482 citations

  3. Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Brussels, Belgium

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    693 citations

  4. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    557 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    2.2K citations

  6. University of Maine

    Orono, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    628 citations

  7. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    584 citations

  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    1.4K citations

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  1. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    48 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 13 publications · 1.8K citations

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  3. Journal of the American Chemical Society

    JACS · 9 publications · 908 citations

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  4. Physical Review

    8 publications · 12.2K citations

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    PRE · 8 publications · 377 citations

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