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The Jarzynski equality is one of the most influential results in the field of non equilibrium statistical mechanics. This celebrated equality allows to calculate equilibrium free energy differences from work distributions of nonequilibrium processes. In practice, such calculations often suffer from poor convergence due to the need to sample rare events. Here we examine if the inclusion of measurement and feedback can improve the convergence of nonequilibrium free energy calculations. A modified version of the Jarzynski equality in which realizations with a given outcome are kept, while others are discarded, is used. We find that discarding realizations with unwanted outcomes can result in improved convergence compared to calculations based on the Jarzynski equality. We argue that the observed improved convergence is closely related to Bennetts acceptance ratio method, which was developed without any reference to measurements or feedback.
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