Abstract. We show by extensive numerical simulations, that far-from-equilibrium experiments on dusty plasmas and on dipole particles in a circular cavity are good candidates for the verification of the Jarzynski equality, the Crooks relation and, to a lesser extent, of the recently obtained microscopic expression for the dissipated work.

PACS numbers: 05.70.Ln, 52.27.Lw, 82.70.Dd

Print publication: Issue 3 (November 2009)
Received 29 September 2009, accepted for publication 15 October 2009
Published 4 November 2009