We propose a new protocol that ensures the fast equilibration of an overdamped harmonic oscillator by a joint time-engineering of the confinement strength and of the effective temperature of the thermal bath. We demonstrate experimentally the effectiveness of our protocol with an optically trapped Brownian particle and report an equilibrium recovering time reduced by about two orders of magnitude compared to the natural relaxation time. Our scheme paves the way towards reservoir engineering in nano-systems.
@article{arxiv.1801.09438,
title = {Thermal bath Engineering for Swift Equilibration},
author = {Marie Chupeau and Benjamin Besga and David Guéry-Odelin and Emmanuel Trizac and Artyom Petrosyan and Sergio Ciliberto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09438},
year = {2018}
}