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The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of interest in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, thanks to advances in the theory of stochastic processes and in their thermodynamic interpretation. Fluctuation theorems provide fundamental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-16 Robert Marsland , Jeremy England

The asymmetry between heating and cooling in open quantum systems is a hallmark of nonequilibrium dynamics, yet its thermodynamic origin has remained unclear. Here, we investigate the thermalization of a quantum system weakly coupled to a…

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The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, which establishes a universal trade-off between the relative fluctuation of arbitrary currents and the dissipation, has been found for various Markovian systems. However, this relation has not been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

In nonequilibrium steady states of Markov jump processes, we derive exact Fluctuation-Response Relations (FRRs) that express the covariance between any pair of currents in terms of static responses in a notably simple form, thus…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Timur Aslyamov , Krzysztof Ptaszyński , Massimiliano Esposito

We derive a universal thermodynamic uncertainty relation for Fermionic coherent transport, which bounds the total rate of entropy production in terms of the mean and fluctuations of a single particle current. This bound holds for any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-29 Kay Brandner , Keiji Saito

Uncertainty relations state that there exist certain incompatible measurements, to which the outcomes cannot be simultaneously predicted. While the exact incompatibility of quantum measurements dictated by such uncertainty relations can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Esther Hänggi , Stephanie Wehner

Several recent inequalities bound the precision of a current - counting net number of transitions in a system - by a thermodynamic measure of dissipation. However, while currents may be defined locally, dissipation is a global property.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-28 Matteo Polettini , Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

Thermodynamic (TUR) and kinetic (KUR) uncertainty relations are fundamental bounds constraining the fluctuations of current observables in classical, non-equilibrium systems. Several works have verified, however, violations of these…

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

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 derive a universal thermodynamic bound constraining directional transport in both discrete and continuous nonequilibrium systems. For continuous-time Markov jump processes and overdamped diffusions governed by Fokker--Planck equations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 Mesfin Taye

We generalize the link between fluctuation theorems and thermodynamic uncertainty relations by deriving a bound on the variance of fluxes that satisfy an isometric fluctuation theorem. The resulting bound, which depends on the system's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-11 Hadrien Vroylandt , Karel Proesmans , Todd R. Gingrich

It is done by introducing of an additional term proportional to the interior energy into the standard thermodynamic uncertainty relation that leads to existence of the lower limit of inverse temperature

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin , A. Ya. Tregubovich

We proved when random-variable fluctuations obey the central limit theorem the equality of the uncertainty relation corresponds to the thermodynamic equilibrium state. The inequality corresponds to the thermodynamic non-equilibrium state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 You-gang Feng

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations quantifying a trade-off between current fluctuation and entropy production have been found in various stochastic systems. Herein, we study the thermodynamic uncertainty relations for Langevin systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

A generalization of the thermodynamic uncertainty relations is proposed. It is done by introducing of an additional term proportional to the interior energy into the standard thermodynamic uncertainty relation that leads to existence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin , A. Ya. Tregubovich

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation for general open quantum dynamics, described by a joint unitary evolution on a composite system comprising a system and an environment. By measuring the environmental state after the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-06 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The fluctuation theorem is a pivotal result of statistical physics. It quantifies the probability of observing fluctuations which are in violation of the second law of thermodynamics. More specifically, it quantifies the ratio of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-26 M. Belushkin , R. Livi , G. Foffi

Fluctuations strongly affect the dynamics and functionality of nanoscale thermal machines. Recent developments in stochastic thermodynamics have shown that fluctuations in many far-from-equilibrium systems are constrained by the rate of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Antoine Rignon-Bret , Giacomo Guarnieri , John Goold , Mark T. Mitchison

The total entropy production quantifies the extent of irreversibility in thermodynamic systems, which is nonnegative for any feasible dynamics. When additional information such as the initial and final states or moments of an observable is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-29 Van Tuan Vo , Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa