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Optimal performance of thermal machines is reached by suppressing friction. Friction in quantum thermodynamics results from fast driving schemes that generate nonadiabatic excitations. The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of quantum devices…
Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) were first developed in quantum dynamics to realize rapid transformations with suppressed residual excitations. Here we show how the same idea can be implemented in classical nonlinear dissipative Lagrangian…
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