Efficiency fluctuations of small machines with unknown losses
Statistical Mechanics
2016-05-16 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
The efficiency statistics of a small thermodynamic machine has been recently investigated assuming that the total dissipation was a linear combination of two currents: the input and output currents. Here, we relax this standard assumption and reconsider the question of the efficiency fluctuations for a machine involving three different processes, first in full generality and second for two different examples. Since the third process may not be measurable and/or may decrease the machine efficiency, our motivation is to study the effect of unknown losses in small machines.
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@article{arxiv.1602.05855,
title = {Efficiency fluctuations of small machines with unknown losses},
author = {Hadrien Vroylandt and Anthony Bonfils and Gatien Verley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05855},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
11 pages, 4 figures, v2: version accepted in PRE