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In the field of superconducting electronics, the on-chip generation of AC radiation is essential for further advancements. Although a Josephson junction can emit AC radiation from a purely DC voltage bias, the coherence of this radiation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 David Scheer , Jonas Völler , Fabian Hassler

The description of electron-electron interactions in transport problems is both analytically and numerically difficult. Here we show that a much simpler description of electron transport in the presence of interactions can be achieved in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto D'Agosta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) provide lower bounds on the entropy production (EP) of a system in terms of the statistical precision of an arbitrary current in that system. All conventional TURs derived so far have concerned…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-19 Gülce Kardeş , David H. Wolpert

Many versions of Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations (TUR) have recently been discovered, which impose lower bounds on relative fluctuations of integrated currents in irreversible dissipative processes, and suggest that there may be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Mingnan Ding , Chen Huang , Xiangjun Xing

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

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) is a fundamental principle in non-equilibrium thermodynamics that relates entropy production to fluctuations in a system, establishing a trade-off between the precision of an observable and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Arghya Maity , Ahana Ghoshal

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) for systems with unidirectional transitions. The uncertainty relation involves a mixture of thermodynamic and dynamic terms. Namely, the entropy production from bidirectional transitions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-30 Arnab Pal , Shlomi Reuveni , Saar Rahav

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations (TURs) are relations that establish lower bounds for the relative fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities in terms of the statistics of the associated entropy production. In this work we derive a family…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 André M. Timpanaro

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) delineate tradeoff relations between the thermodynamic cost and the magnitude of an observable's fluctuation. While TURs have been established for various nonequilibrium systems, their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-23 Hyeong-Tark Han , Jae Sung Lee , Jae-Hyung Jeon

To develop next-generation electronics and high efficiency energy-harvesting devices, it is crucial to understand how charge and heat are transported at the nanoscale. Metallic atomic-size contacts are ideal systems to probe the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Nico Mosso , Alyssa Prasmusinto , Andrea Gemma , Ute Drechsler , Lukas Novotny , Bernd Gotsmann

We investigate the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR), \textit{i.e.} a trade-off between entropy production rate and relative power fluctuations, for nondegenerate three-level and degenerate four-level maser heat engines. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Varinder Singh , Vahid Shaghaghi , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu , Dario Rosa

We introduce an example of thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) for systems modeled by a one-dimensional generalised Langevin dynamics with memory, determining the motion of a micro-bead driven in a complex fluid. Contrary to TURs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-06 Ivan Di Terlizzi , Marco Baiesi

We consider the electromagnetic field generated by a coherent conductor in which electron transport is described quantum mechanically. We obtain an input-output relation linking the quantum current in the conductor to the measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Farzad Qassemi , Arne L. Grimsmo , Bertrand Reulet , Alexandre Blais

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

The Heisenberg uncertainty relation, which links the uncertainties of the position and momentum of a particle, has an important footprint on the quantum behavior of a physical system. Analogous to this principle, we propose that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Pratik Sathe , Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Francesco Caravelli

We derive a universal thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) that applies to an arbitrary observable in a general Markovian system. The generality of our result allows us to make two findings: (1) for an arbitrary out-of-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-07 Liu Ziyin , Masahito Ueda

A new Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation (TUR) is derived for systems described by linearly coupled Langevin equations in the presence of non-linear frictional forces. In our scheme, the main variable represents the velocity of a particle,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-09 A. Plati , A. Puglisi , A. Sarracino

Kinetic Uncertainty Relations (KURs) set fundamental limits on the precision of nonequilibrium transport by bounding the signal-to-noise ratio of currents in terms of the dynamical activity, a quantity that counts exchange events between a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gianmichele Blasi , Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Mykhailo Moskalets , Rosa López , Géraldine Haack

To reveal the role of the quantumness in the Otto cycle and to discuss the validity of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) in the cycle, we study the quantum Otto cycle and its classical counterpart. In particular, we calculate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Sangyun Lee , Meesoon Ha , Hawoong Jeong

The Kinetic Uncertainty Relation (KUR) bounds the signal-to-noise ratio of stochastic currents in terms of the number of transitions per unit time, known as the dynamical activity. This bound was derived in a classical context, and can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Kacper Prech , Patrick P. Potts , Gabriel T. Landi