Crooks Fluctuation Theorem - wikipedia.org ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## Metadata - Author: **wikipedia.org** - Full Title: Crooks Fluctuation Theorem - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooks_fluctuation_theorem ## Highlights - The most general statement of the CFT relates the probability of a space-time trajectory ![](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/d54c275db3a1e620737b58e143b0818107fa5f5c) to the time-reversal of the trajectory ![](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/5eea77037e598e1855f2c80570e8ad6055a4971b) . The theorem says if the dynamics of the system satisfies [microscopic reversibility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopic_reversibility), then the forward time trajectory is exponentially more likely than the reverse, given that it produces entropy ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hygvj33gedzy77tk1zr34kq8))