Fluctuations and macroscopic irreversibility.

Luchinsky, D. G. and McClintock, Peter V. E. and Kaufman, I. Kh. (1997) Fluctuations and macroscopic irreversibility. In: Noise in Physical Systems and 1/f Fluctuations. World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 377-380. ISBN 981-02-3141-5

Abstract

Experiments on noise-driven electronic models are being used to test fundamental tenets of fluctuation theory. It is shown that large fluctuations in equilibrium systems display time-reversal symmetry, as had been widely assumed, whereas those in far-from-equilibrium systems are irreversible and exhibit rotational flow.