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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

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

In quantum thermodynamics, entropy production is usually defined in terms of the quantum relative entropy between two states. We derive a lower bound for the quantum entropy production in terms of the mean and variance of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Domingos S. P. Salazar

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

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

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

We investigate fundamental limits on the performance of information processing systems from the perspective of information thermodynamics. We first extend the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) to a subsystem. Specifically, for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-04 Tomohiro Tanogami , Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito

The trade-off between large power output, high efficiency and small fluctuations in the operation of heat engines has recently received interest in the context of thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs). Here we provide a concrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Sara Kheradsoud , Nastaran Dashti , Maciej Misiorny , Patrick P. Potts , Janine Splettstoesser , Peter Samuelsson

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) for underdamped dynamics has intriguing problems while its counterpart for overdamped dynamics has recently been derived. Even for the case of steady states, a proper way to match underdamped and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-02 Chulan Kwon , Youngchae Kwon , Hyun Keun Lee

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

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations elucidate the intricate balance between the precision of current and the thermodynamic costs or dissipation, marking a recent and enthralling advancement at the confluence of statistical mechanics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ryohei Yuno , Katsuaki Tanabe

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

Molecular motors play pivotal roles in organizing the interior of cells. A motor efficient in cargo transport would move along cytoskeletal filaments with a high speed and a minimal error in transport distance (or time) while consuming a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Wonseok Hwang , Changbong Hyeon

We use the fundamental nonequilibrium steady-state fluctuation symmetry and derive a condition on the validity of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) in thermal transport problems, classical or quantum alike. We test this condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Sushant Saryal , Hava Friedman , Dvira Segal , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

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

We analytically derive universal bounds that describe the trade-off between thermodynamic cost and precision in a sequence of events related to some internal changes of an otherwise hidden physical system. The precision is quantified by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-18 Patrick Pietzonka , Francesco Coghi

Stability and efficiency are mutually exclusive in a thermodynamic process, e.g. in a thermal machine. Any effort to reduce the fluctuations of a certain output quantity is necessarily accompanied by an increase of entropy production,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Franco Mayo , Nahual Sobrino , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei , Michele Governale

Clocks are inherently out-of-equilibrium because, due to friction, they constantly consume free energy to keep track of time. The Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation (TUR) quantifies the trade-off between the precision of any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-05 Ashwin Gopal , Massimiliano Esposito , Nahuel Freitas

Using Brownian motion in periodic potentials $V(x)$ tilted by a force $f$, we provide physical insight into the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, a recently conjectured principle for statistical errors and irreversible heat dissipation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-09 Changbong Hyeon , Wonseok Hwang

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