On Wed, 17 May 2017 09:00:54 +0000
Ramin Salimi <ramin.salimi01.utrgv.edu> wrote:
> Hi Hannes
>
> You, in fact, are right since the free energy difference is equal to
> the average work plus the second cumulant expansion, but we do not
> have the free energy difference so amongst the three quantities, we
> only have the average work, not either the variance or the free
> energy difference???
The equality only holds when the distribution of the work values is a
Gaussian which e.g. when you operate in a near-equilibrium regime, see
for instance
http://www.pnas.org/content/100/22/12564.long .
The variance here is the variance of your work values! E.g. paste all
work values that you have received from N simulations into a spread
sheet and ask it to compute the sample variance (like the function
var.S in Excel/LibreOffice calc) from this data. That's really just
standard statistics.
Cheers,
Hannes.
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