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Periodic driving is used to operate machines that go from standard macroscopic engines to small non-equilibrium micro-sized systems. Two classes of such systems are small heat engines driven by periodic temperature variations and molecular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-16 Somrita Ray , Andre C. Barato

We study non-equilibrium (NE) fluctuation-dissipation (FD) relations in the context of quantum thermoelectric transport through a two-terminal nanodevice, in the steady-state and with interaction. The FD relations for the one- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

We present the design for a thermodynamic computer that can perform arbitrary nonlinear calculations in or out of equilibrium. Simple thermodynamic circuits, fluctuating degrees of freedom in contact with a thermal bath and confined by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-08 Stephen Whitelam , Corneel Casert

We establish the foundations of a nonequilibrium theory of quantum thermodynamics for noninteracting open quantum systems strongly coupled to their reservoirs within the framework of the nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). The energy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-18 Massimiliano Esposito , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin

Neural dynamics of energy-based models are governed by energy minimization and the patterns stored in the network are retrieved when the system reaches equilibrium. However, when the system is driven by time-varying external input, the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-25 Kevin S. Chen

The limit of small entropy production is reached in relaxing systems long after preparation, and in stationary driven systems in the limit of small driving power. Surprisingly, for extended systems this limit is not in general the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Jorge Kurchan

In this work, we study the nonequilibrium statistical properties of the relaxation dynamics of a nanoparticle trapped in a harmonic potential. We report an exact time-dependent analytical solution to the Langevin dynamics that arises from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 Domingos S. P. Salazar , Sérgio A. Lira

In a generalized framework for the Landauer erasure protocol, we study bounds on the heat dissipated in typical nonequilibrium quantum processes. In contrast to thermodynamic processes, quantum fluctuations are not suppressed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Philip Taranto , Kavan Modi , Felix A. Pollock

A thermodynamic-like formalism is developed for superstatistical systems based on conditional entropies. This theory takes into account large-scale variations of intensive variables of systems in nonequilibrium stationary states. Ordinary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sumiyoshi Abe , Christian Beck , E. G. D. Cohen

A closed set of coupled equations of motion for the description of time-dependent electron transport is derived. It provides the time evolution of energy-resolved quantities constructed from non-equilibrium Green functions. By means of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann

As recently proposed, the long-time behavior of equilibrium time-correlation functions for one-dimensional systems are expected to be captured by a nonlinear extension of fluctuating hydrodynamics. We outline the predictions from the theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-05 Christian B. Mendl , Herbert Spohn

This paper investigates generalized thermodynamic relationships in physical systems where relevant macroscopic variables are determined by the exponential Kolmogorov-Nagumo average. We show that while the thermodynamic entropy of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-23 Pablo A. Morales , Jan Korbel , Fernando E. Rosas

The nonextensive thermodynamic relations are expressed under the assumption of temperature duality, endowing the "physical temperature" and the "Lagrange temperature" in different physical sense. Based on this assumption, two sets of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-18 Yahui Zheng , Jiulin Du

In this review paper, we discuss the statistical description in non-equilibrium regimes of energy fluctuations originated by the interaction between a quantum system and a measurement apparatus applying a sequence of repeated quantum…

We prove the Jarzynski relation for general stochastic processes including non-Markovian systems with memory. The only requirement for our proof is the existence of a stationary state, therefore excluding non-ergodic systems. We then show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-27 Thomas Speck , Udo Seifert

Developing a thermodynamic theory of computation is a challenging task at the interface of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and computer science. In particular, this task requires dealing with difficulties such as stochastic halting times,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-14 Gonzalo Manzano , Gülce Kardeş , Édgar Roldán , David Wolpert

We develop an exact quantum thermodynamic description for a noninteracting nanoscale steady state that couples strongly with multiple reservoirs. It is demonstrated that there exists a steady-state extension of the thermodynamic function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Nobuhiko Taniguchi

Multistable non-equilibrium systems are abundant outcomes of nonlinear dynamics with feedback but still relatively little is known about what determines the stability of the steady states and their switching rates in terms of entropy and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Jacob Cook , Robert G. Endres

The concept of temperature in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is an outstanding theoretical issue. We propose an energy repartition principle that leads to a spectral (mode-dependent) temperature in steady-state nonequilibrium systems. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Peng Yan , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Huaiwu Zhang

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) for first-passage times (FPTs) on continuous time Markov chains. The TUR utilizes the entropy production coming from bidirectional transitions, and the net flux coming from unidirectional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 Arnab Pal , Shlomi Reuveni , Saar Rahav