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Understanding noisy information engines is a fundamental problem of non-equilibrium physics, particularly in biomolecular systems agitated by thermal and active fluctuations in the cell. By the generalized second law of thermodynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-01 Govind Paneru , Sandipan Dutta , Takahiro Sagawa , Tsvi Tlusty , Hyuk Kyu Pak

We study fluctuations of pressure in equilibrium for classical particle systems. In equilibrium statistical mechanics, pressure for a microscopic state is defined by the derivative of a thermodynamic function or, more mechanically, through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-05 Ken Hiura , Shin-ichi Sasa

Although nonequilibrium work and fluctuation relations have been studied in detail within classical statistical physics, extending these results to open quantum systems has proven to be conceptually difficult. For systems that undergo…

We identify the conditions under which a stochastic driving inducing energy changes on a system coupled to a thermal bath can be treated as a work source. When these conditions are met, the work statistics satisfies the Crooks fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Gatien Verley , Christian Van den Broeck , Massimiliano Esposito

We draw attention on the fast oscillatory deviations from the residual non-ambipolarity in the case where electrons are driven by strong magnetic perturbations.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Spineanu , M. Vlad

We derive the nonequilibrium transient state work fluctuation theorem and also the Jarzynski equality for a classical harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to a harmonic heat bath, which is dragged by an external agent. Coupling with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-09 Rajarshi Chakrabarti

Biological activity gives rise to non-equilibrium fluctuations in the cytoplasm of cells; however, there are few methods to directly measure these fluctuations. Using a reconstituted actin cytoskeleton, we show that the bending dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Brangwynne , G. H. Koenderink , F. C. MacKintosh , D. A. Weitz

For a many-particle system with long-range interactions and evolving under stochastic dynamics, we study for the first time the out-of-equilibrium fluctuations of the work done on the system by a time-dependent external force. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-19 Shamik Gupta , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

We analytically study the role of nonconservative forces, namely viscous couplings, on the statistical properties of the energy flux between two Brownian particles kept at different temperatures. From the dynamical model describing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-01 Antoine Bérut , Alberto Imparato , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

We discuss intrinsic mechanisms of nonequilibrium excess noise in superconducting devices and transition edge sensors. In particular, we present an overview of fluctuation-driven contributions to the current noise in the vicinity of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Juhun Kwak , Emil Pellett , Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

We analyze out-of-equilibrium fluctuations in a driven spin system and relate them to the noise of spin susceptibility. In the spirit of the linear response theory we further relate the noise of susceptibility to a $4$-spin correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Pablo Schad , Boris N. Narozhny , Gerd Schön , Alexander Shnirman

We examine the question of whether the formal expressions of equilibrium statistical mechanics can be applied to time independent non-dissipative systems that are not in true thermodynamic equilibrium and are nonergodic. By assuming the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-09 Stephen R. Williams , Denis J. Evans

We analyze heat and work fluctuations in the gravitational wave detector AURIGA, modeled as a macroscopic electromechanical oscillator in contact with a thermostat and cooled by an active feedback system. The oscillator is driven to a…

We study Brownian motion driven with both conservative and nonconservative external forces. By using the thermodynamic approach of the theory of Brownian motion we obtain the Fokker-Planck equation and derive expressions for the Fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Perez-Madrid , I. Santamaria-Holek

The fluctuation in electric current in nonequilibrium steady states is investigated by molecular dynamics simulation of macroscopically uniform conductors. At low frequencies, appropriate decomposition of the spectral intensity of current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tatsuro Yuge , Akira Shimizu

We present the stochastic thermodynamics analysis of an open quantum system weakly coupled to multiple reservoirs and driven by a rapidly oscillating external field. The analysis is built on a modified stochastic master equation in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-12 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Andreas Engel , Massimiliano Esposito

We continue the investigation, started in [J. Stat. Phys. 166, 926-1015 (2017)], of a network of harmonic oscillators driven out of thermal equilibrium by heat reservoirs. We study the statistics of the fluctuations of the heat fluxes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Mondher Damak , Mayssa Hammami , Claude-Alain Pillet

We consider the nonequilibrium work distribution of a quantum oscillator with modulated angular frequency. We examine the discrete-to-continuous transition of the distribution as the temperature and the degree of nonadiabaticity of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-28 Sebastian Deffner , Obinna Abah , Eric Lutz

Fluctuations are significant in mesoscopic systems and of particular importance in understanding quantum transport. Here, we show that fluctuations can be considered as a resource for the operations of open quantum systems as functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jincheng Lu , Rongqian Wang , Chen Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

The response of thermodynamic systems perturbed out of an equilibrium steady-state is described by the reciprocal and the fluctuation-dissipation relations. The so-called fluctuation theorems extended the study of fluctuations far beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-21 Matteo Polettini , Massimiliano Esposito