The Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem relates the spontaneous thermal fluctuations of a physical system in equilibrium to the way that same system dissipates energy when weakly disturbed from equilibrium, showing both are governed by the same underlying response function. First established in specific form by Harry Nyquist and later generalized by Herbert Callen and Theodore Welton, it is a foundational result of statistical mechanics connecting equilibrium noise to non-equilibrium linear response, with the Einstein relation for Brownian motion as an early special case.
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1. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem (Wikipedia)
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The fluctuation dissipation theorem was proven by Herbert Callen and Theodore Welton in 1951
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