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Progress in miniaturized technology allows us to control physical systems at nanoscale with remarkable precision. Experimental advancements have sparked interest in control problems in stochastic thermodynamics, typically concerning a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-26 Julia Sanders , Marco Baldovin , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi

We consider a macroscopic system in contact with boundary reservoirs and/or under the action of an external field. We discuss the case in which the external forcing depends explicitly on time and drives the system from a nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Bertini , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

The central quantity in the celebrated quantum Jarzynski equality is $e^{-\beta W}$, where $W$ is work and $\beta$ is the inverse temperature. The impact of quantum randomness on the fluctuations of $e^{-\beta W}$ and hence on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Wei Cheng , Wenquan Liu , Yang Wu , Zhibo Niu , Chang-Kui Duan , Jiangbin Gong , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

Detailed fluctuation theorem, a microscopic version of the steady state fluctuation theorem, has been proposed by Jarzynski and demonstrated in the case of Hamiltonian systems weakly coupled with reservoirs. We show that an identical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-20 K. Gururaj , G. Raghavan , M. C. Valsakumar

Work is one of the most basic notion in statistical mechanics, with work fluctuation theorems being one central topic in nanoscale thermodynamics. With Hamiltonian chaos commonly thought to provide a foundation for classical statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 Jiawen Deng , Alvis Mazon Tan , Peter Hanggi , Jiangbin Gong

In the last ten years, a number of ``Conventional Fluctuation Theorems'' have been derived for systems with deterministic or stochastic dynamics, in a transient or in a non-equilibrium stationary state. These theorems gave explicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , E. G. D. Cohen

We study the non-equilibrium work in a pedagogical model of relativistic ideal gas. We obtain the exact work distribution and verify the Jarzynski's equality. In the non-relativistic limit, our results recover the non-relativistic results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-21 Xianghang Zhang , Tingzhang Shi , H. T. Quan

The fluctuation theorems have remained one of the cornerstones in the study of systems that are driven far out of equilibrium, and they provide strong constraints on the fraction of trajectories that behave atypically in light of the second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

The steady state of a Brownian particle diffusing in an arbitrary potential under the stochastic resetting mechanism has been studied. We show that there are different classes of nonequilibrium steady states depending on the nature of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-13 Arnab Pal

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of an active Brownian particle under stochastic resetting to its initial configuration, comprising its position and orientation, to reach an absorbing wall in two dimensions. Coupling a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-04 Yanis Baouche , Christina Kurzthaler

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…

Bridging equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical physics attracts sustained interest. Hallmarks of nonequilibrium systems include a breakdown of detailed balance, and an absence of a priori potential function corresponding to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-24 Ying Tang , Ruoshi Yuan , Jianhong Chen , Ping Ao

In this paper we aim at characterizing the effect of stochastic fluctuations on the distribution of the energy exchanged by a quantum system with an external environment under sequences of quantum measurements performed at random times.…

We propose an optimization strategy to control the dynamics of a stochastic system transferred from one thermal equilibrium to another and apply it experimentally to a Brownian particle in an optical trap under compression. Based on a…

The characteristic function of the work performed by an external time-dependent force on a Hamiltonian quantum system is identified with the time-ordered correlation function of the exponentiated system's Hamiltonian. A similar expression…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Talkner , Eric Lutz , Peter Hanggi

The effects of Poissonian resetting at a constant rate $r$ on the reaction time between a Brownian particle and a stochastically gated target are studied. The target switches between a reactive state and a non-reactive one. We calculate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-11 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer

Stochastic processes that are randomly reset to an initial condition serve as a showcase to investigate non-equilibrium steady states. However, all existing results have been restricted to the special case of memoryless resetting protocols.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 Stephan Eule , Jakob Metzger

We consider overdamped Brownian particles with two degrees of freedom (DoF) that are confined in a time-varying quadratic potential and are in simultaneous contact with heat baths of different temperatures along the respective DoF. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-21 Jordi Ventura Siches , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

Jarzynski's theorem is a well-known equality in statistical mechanics, which relates fluctuations in the work performed during a non-equilibrium transformation of a system, to the free-energy difference between two equilibrium ensembles. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-16 Michele Caselle , Gianluca Costagliola , Alessandro Nada , Marco Panero , Arianna Toniato