The amount of work that is needed to change the state of a system in contact with a heat bath between specified initial and final nonequilibrium states is at least equal to the corresponding equilibrium free energy difference plus (respectively, minus ) temperature times the information of the final (respectively, the initial) state relative to the corresponding equilibrium distributions.
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Massimiliano Esposito (2011) studied this question.
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