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We introduce a model for a periodically driven electron pump that sequentially interact with an arbitrary number of heat and particle reservoirs. Exact expressions for the thermodynamic fluxes, such as entropy production and particle flows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-03 Pedro E. Harunari , Carlos E. Fiore , Karel Proesmans

Generalized empirical currents represent a vast class of thermodynamic observables of mesoscopic systems. Their fluctuations satisfy the thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs), as they can be bounded by the average entropy production.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-21 Daniel Maria Busiello , Carlos Fiore

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation is a prominent result in stochastic thermodynamics that provides a bound on the fluctuations of any thermodynamic flux, also known as current, in terms of the average rate of entropy production. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-22 Taylor Wampler , Andre C Barato

Two widely used model-free lower bounds on the steady-state entropy production rate of a continuous-time Markov jump process are the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) bound $\sigma_\text{TUR}$, derived from the mean and variance of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jie Gu

Lower bounds on fluctuations of thermodynamic currents depend on the nature of time: discrete or continuous. To understand the physical reason, we compare current fluctuations in discrete-time Markov chains and continuous-time master…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-21 Davide Chiuchiù , Simone Pigolotti

The cumulant generating function of time-averaged current is studied from an operational viewpoint. Specifically, for interacting Brownian particles under non-equilibrium conditions, we show that the first derivative of the cumulant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Takahiro Nemoto , Shin-ichi Sasa

Periodic driving is used to operate machines that go from standard macroscopic engines to small non-equilibrium micro-sized systems. Two classes of such systems are small heat engines driven by periodic temperature variations and molecular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-16 Somrita Ray , Andre C. Barato

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) bounds coherence in stochastic oscillatory systems. In this paper, we show that both dynamical and thermodynamic bounds play important roles for the excitable oscillators, e.g. neurons. Firstly, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-24 Chunming Zheng

The kinetic uncertainty relation (KUR) is a trade-off relation between the precision of an observable and the mean dynamical activity in a fixed time interval for a time-homogeneous and continuous-time Markov chain. In this letter, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ken Hiura , Shin-ichi Sasa

A deeper understanding of the differences between quantum and classical dynamics promises great potential for emerging technologies. Nevertheless, some aspects remain poorly understood, particularly concerning the role of quantum coherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kacper Prech , Philip Johansson , Elias Nyholm , Gabriel T. Landi , Claudio Verdozzi , Peter Samuelsson , Patrick P. Potts

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

The response of thermodynamic systems perturbed out of an equilibrium steady-state is described by the reciprocal and the fluctuation-dissipation relations. The so-called fluctuation theorems extended the study of fluctuations far beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-21 Matteo Polettini , Massimiliano Esposito

Recent research has considered the stochastic thermodynamics of multiple interacting systems, representing the overall system as a Bayes net. I derive fluctuation theorems governing the entropy production (EP)of arbitrary sets of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-01 David H. Wolpert

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

Time-reversal symmetry plays an essential role in the thermodynamic uncertainty relations, which bound the fluctuations of observables in terms of the associated dissipation. In fact, thermodynamic uncertainty relations are typically…

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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

In order to account for possible nonstatistical fluctuations in a hadronizing system (leading to the characteristic power-like behavior of the respective single particle spectra and to the broadening of the corresponding multiparticle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-21 Grzegorz Wilk , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

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 fluctuation theorem is the fundamental equality in nonequilibrium thermodynamics that is used to derive many important thermodynamic relations, such as the second law of thermodynamics and the Jarzynski equality. Recently, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-16 Yoshihiko Hasegawa , Tan Van Vu

Universality of classical thermodynamics rests on the central limit theorem, due to which, measurements of thermal fluctuations are unable to reveal detailed information regarding the microscopic structure of a macroscopic body. When small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Lucas Chibebe Céleri , Łukasz Rudnicki