Heat fluctuations are studied in a dissipative system with both deterministic and stochastic components for a simple model: a Brownian particle dragged through water by a moving potential. An extension of the stationary state fluctuation theorem is derived. For infinite time, this reduces to the conventional fluctuation theorem only for small fluctuations; for large fluctuations, it gives a much larger ratio of the probabilities of the particle to absorb rather than supply heat. This persists for finite times and should be observable in experiments similar to a recent one carried out by Wang et al. © 2003 The American Physical Society.
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van Zon, R., & Cohen, E. G. D. (2003). Extension of the fluctuation theorem. Physical Review Letters, 91(11). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.110601
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