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Recent years have witnessed major advances in our understanding of nonequilibrium processes. The Jarzynski equality, for example, provides a link between equilibrium free energy differences and finite-time, nonequilibrium dynamics. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-27 Dibyendu Mandal , Michael R. DeWeese

The Jarzynski equality relates the free energy difference between two equilibrium states to the fluctuating irreversible work afforded to switch between them. The prescribed fixed temperature for the equilibrium states implicitly constrains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-03 Tobias Thalheim , Marco Braun , Gianmaria Falasco , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos

Thermodynamics of quantum coherence has attracted growing attention recently, where the thermodynamic advantage of quantum superposition is characterized in terms of quantum thermodynamics. We investigate thermodynamic effects of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yûto Murashita , Zongping Gong , Yuto Ashida , Masahito Ueda

In conventional thermodynamics, it is widely acknowledged that the realization of an isothermal process for a system requires a quasi-static controlling protocol. Here we propose and design a strategy to realize a finite-rate isothermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-25 Geng Li , H. T. Quan , Z. C. Tu

We investigate the connection between recent results in quantum thermodynamics and fluctuation relations by adopting a fully quantum mechanical description of thermodynamics. By including a work system whose energy is allowed to fluctuate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Álvaro M. Alhambra , Lluis Masanes , Jonathan Oppenheim , Christopher Perry

We study feedback control of coupled nonlinear stochastic oscillators in a force field. We first consider the problem of asymptotically driving the system to a desired {\em steady state} corresponding to reduced thermal noise. Among the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

We compare two approaches to nonequilibrium thermodynamics, the two-generator bracket formulation of time-evolution equations for averages and the macroscopic fluctuation theory, for an isothermal driven diffusive system under steady state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-10 Hans Christian Ottinger

Generalizing response theory of open systems far from equilibrium is a central quest of nonequilibrium statistical physics. Using stochastic thermodynamics, we develop an algebraic method to study the response of nonequilibrium steady state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-09 Timur Aslyamov , Massimiliano Esposito

This article traces the development of fluctuation theory and its deep connection to irreversibility, from equilibrium to near-equilibrium, and finally to far-from-equilibrium systems. Classical fluctuation theorems, which capture the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Sounak Bandyopadhyay , Arnab Ghosh

Nonequilibrium work-Hamiltonian connection for a microstate plays a central role in diverse branches of statistical thermodynamics (fluctuation theorems, quantum thermodynamics, stochastic thermodynamics, etc.). We show that the change in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-03 P. D. Gujrati

The characteristic function for the joint measurement of the changes of two commuting observables upon an external forcing of a quantum system is derived. In particular, the statistics of the internal energy, the exchanged heat and the work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-18 Peter Talkner , Michele Campisi , Peter Hänggi

We study work fluctuation theorems for oscillators in non-Markovian heat baths. By calculating the work distribution function for a harmonic oscillator with motion described by the generalized Langevin equation, the Jarzynski equality (JE),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Trieu Mai , Abhishek Dhar

The characteristic function for heat fluctuations in a non equilibrium system is characterised by a large deviation function whose symmetry gives rise to a fluctuation theorem. In equilibrium the large deviation function vanishes and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-08 Hans C. Fogedby

This is a brief review of recently derived relations describing the behaviour of systems far from equilibrium. They include the Fluctuation Theorem, Jarzynski's and Crooks' equalities, and an extended form of the Second Principle for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jorge Kurchan

Temperature uncertainty of a quantum system in canonical ensemble is inversely determined by its energy fluctuation, which is known as the temperature-energy uncertainty relation. No such uncertainty relation was discovered for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Ning Zhang , Si-Yuan Bai , Chong Chen

Fluctuation relations are powerful equalities that hold far from equilibrium. However, the standard approach to include measurement and feedback schemes may become inapplicable in certain situations, including continuous measurements,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 Patrick P. Potts , Peter Samuelsson

We show that a gas thermometer in contact with a stationary classical system out of thermal (Boltzmann) equilibrium evolves, under very general conditions, towards a state characterized by a Levy velocity distribution. Our approach is based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Damian H. Zanette , Marcelo A. Montemurro

Time delayed feedback control is one of the most successful methods to discover dynamically unstable features of a dynamical system in an experiment. This approach feeds back only terms that depend on the difference between the current…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Jan Sieber

We study the possibility of taking bosonic systems subject to quadratic Hamiltonians and a noisy thermal environment to non-classical stationary states by feedback loops based on weak measurements and conditioned linear driving. We derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Marco G. Genoni , Stefano Mancini , Alessio Serafini

Predicting how systems respond to external perturbations far from equilibrium remains a fundamental challenge across physics, chemistry, and biology. We present a unified response framework for stochastic Markov dynamics that integrates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jiming Zheng , Zhiyue Lu