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We study a model of isothermal steady-state work-to-work converter, where a single quantum two-level system (TLS) driven by time-dependent periodic external fields acts as the working medium and is permanently put in contact with a thermal…

We address the problem of heat transport in a chain of coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, exposed to the influences of local environments of various nature, stressing the effects that the specific nature of the environment has on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 F. Nicacio , A. Ferraro , A. Imparato , M. Paternostro , F. L. Semião

We focus on the non-equilibrium two-bath spin-boson model, a toy model for examining quantum thermal transport in many-body open systems. Describing the dynamics within the NIBA equations, applicable, e.g., in the strong system-bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lena Nicolin , Dvira Segal

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) arise from the bounds on fluctuations of thermodynamics quantities during a non-equilibrium process and they impose constraints on the corresponding process. We experimentally implement a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Krishna Shende , Arvind , Kavita Dorai

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are general lower bounds on the size of fluctutations of dynamical observables. They have important consequences, one being that the precision of estimation of a current is limited by the amount of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-12 George Bakewell-Smith , Federico Girotti , Mădălin Guţă , Juan P. Garrahan

From a recent geometric generalization of Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations (TURs) we derive novel upper bounds on the nonlinear response of an observable of an arbitrary system undergoing a change of probabilistic state. Various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-09 Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito , Jean-Charles Delvenne

We consider the problem of heat transport by vibrational modes (conduction) between Langevin thermostats connected by a central device. The latter is anharmonic and can be subject to large temperature differences and thus be out of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-15 Keivan Esfarjani

Recently, some general relations have been studied in nonequilibrium mesoscopic systems. In particular, the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) provides a universal internal relation among the cumulants of currents and the entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-07 Takaaki Monnai

Nonequilibrium current fluctuations represent one of the central topics in nonequilibrium physics. The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) is widely acclaimed for rigorously establishing a lower bound on current fluctuations, expressed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Van Tuan Vo , Andreas Dechant , Keiji Saito

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) and kinetic uncertainty relations (KURs) provide tradeoff relations between measurement precision and thermodynamic cost such as entropy production and activity. Conventionally, these relations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-16 Euijoon Kwon , Jae Sung Lee

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) provides a stricter bound for entropy production (EP) than that of the thermodynamic second law. This stricter bound can be utilized to infer the EP and derive other trade-off relations. Though the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jae Sung Lee , Jong-Min Park , Hyunggyu Park

In this paper, we examine the conditions under which the nonlinear transport theory is inescapable, when a correlated quantum dot is symmetrically coupled to two leads submitted to temperature and voltage biases. By detailed numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 J. Azema , P. Lombardo , A. -M. Daré

We investigate a two-qubit SWAP thermal machine -- a streamlined analogue of the four-stroke Otto cycle -- whose working medium comprises inertially moving Unruh-DeWitt qubit detectors, each coupled to a thermal quantum field bath prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Dimitris Moustos , Obinna Abah

We use Floquet formalism to study fluctuations in periodically modulated continuous quantum thermal machines. We present a generic theory for such machines, followed by specific examples of sinusoidal, optimal, and circular modulations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Arpan Das , Shishira Mahunta , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Victor Mukherjee

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, originally derived for classical Markov-jump processes, provides a trade-off relation between precision and dissipation, deepening our understanding of the performance of quantum thermal machines.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Junjie Liu , Dvira Segal

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation is a universal trade-off relation connecting the precision of a current with the average dissipation at large times. For continuous time Markov chains (also called Markov jump processes) this relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. C. Barato , R. Chetrite , A. Faggionato , D. Gabrielli

Periodically driven coherent conductors provide a universal platform for the development of quantum transport devices. Here, we lay down a comprehensive theory to describe the thermodynamics of these systems. We first focus on moderate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Elina Potanina , Christian Flindt , Michael Moskalets , Kay Brandner

The thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs), originally discovered for classical systems, dictate the trade-off between dissipation and fluctuations of irreversible current, specifying a minimal bound that constrains the two quantities.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Davinder Singh , Changbong Hyeon

We review the trade-offs between speed, fluctuations, and thermodynamic cost involved with biological processes in nonequilibrium states, and discuss how optimal these processes are in light of the universal bound set by the thermodynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Yonghyun Song , Changbong Hyeon

Stochastic thermodynamics is the field of study relating fluctuations in stochastic systems to thermodynamic quantities. The total entropy production (EP), is central to the thermodynamic classification of systems. Non-equilibrium systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-05 Lars Torbjørn Stutzer