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We analyze experimental data obtained from an electrical circuit having components at different temperatures, showing how to predict its response to temperature variations. This illustrates in detail how to utilize a recent linear response…

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We analyze heat transfer and Casimir forces involving a nonreciprocal nanoparticle. By dissecting the resulting expressions into reciprocal and nonreciprocal contributions, we find that the particle's self emission contains $++$ and $--$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Laila Henkes , Kiryl Asheichyk , Matthias Krüger

We have used non-equilibrium molecular dynamics to simulate the flow of water molecules around a charged nanoparticle described at the atomic scale. These non-equilibrium simulations allowed us to compute the friction coefficient of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-03 Lisa B. Weiss , Vincent Dahirel , Virginie Marry , Marie Jardat

We study the thermodynamic properties induced by non-reciprocal interactions between stochastic degrees of freedom in time- and space-continuous systems. We show that, under fairly general conditions, non-reciprocal coupling alone implies a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-29 Sarah A. M. Loos , Sabine H. L. Klapp

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

We present a formalism to study the heat transport and the power developed by the local driving fields on a quantum system coupled to macroscopic reservoirs. We show that, quite generally, two important mechanisms can take place: (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-29 Liliana Arrachea , Michael Moskalets , Luis Martin-Moreno

We investigate the heat transport between two nonthermal reservoirs based on a microscopic collision model. We consider a bipartite system consisting of two identical subsystems, and each subsystem interacts with its own local reservoir,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Lei Li , Jian Zou , Hai Li , Bao-Ming Xu , Yuan-Mei Wang , Bin Shao

A central building block of a heat engine is the working fluid, which mediates the conversion of heat into work. In nanoscale heat engines, the working fluid can be a quantum system whose behavior and dynamics are non-classical. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Riya Baruah , Pedro Portugal , Jun-Zhe Chen , Joachim Wabnig , Christian Flindt

In this study, we advance the understanding of non-equilibrium systems by deriving thermodynamic relations for a heat engine operating under an exponentially decreasing temperature profile. Such thermal configurations closely mimic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Mesfin Taye

We experimentally demonstrate that highly structured distributions of work emerge during even the simple task of erasing a single bit. These are signatures of a refined suite of time-reversal symmetries in distinct functional classes of…

We review a series of experimental studies of the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium processes at the microscale. In particular, in these experiments we studied the fluctuations of the thermodynamic properties of a single optically-trapped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 L. Dinis , I. A. Martínez , É. Roldán , J. M. R. Parrondo , R. A. Rica

The potential of mean force (PMF) between two nano crystals (NCs) represents an effective interaction potential that can be used to study the assembly of NCs to various superstructures. For a given temperature, the effective interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Alexander Lange , Fabian Danecker , Gernot Bauer , Nadezda Gribova , Joachim Gross

Within a closed system, physical interactions are reciprocal. However, the effective interaction between two entities of an open system may not obey reciprocity. Here, we describe a non-reciprocal interaction between nanoparticles which is…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-02 Amir M. Jazayeri , Sohila Abdelhafiz , Aristide Dogariu

We describe results of computer simulations of steady state heat transport in a fluid of hard discs undergoing both elastic interparticle collisions and velocity randomizing collisions which do not conserve momentum. The system consists of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Pedro L. Garrido , Joel L. Lebowitz

The understanding of heat transport in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is an important research frontier, which is crucial for implementing novel thermodynamic devices, such as heat engines and refrigerators. The convection, conduction, and…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Cheng Yang , Xinrui Wei , Jiteng Sheng , Haibin Wu

Time modulation opens new avenues for light, heat control, and energy harvesting, yet the impact of nonequilibrium dynamics of microscopic particles remains largely unexplored. We develop a microscopic theory to describe radiative heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Hui Pan , Yuhua Ren , Gaomin Tang , Jian-Sheng Wang

Starting at the mesoscopic level with a general formulation of stochastic thermodynamics in terms of Markov jump processes, we identify the scaling conditions that ensure the emergence of a (typically nonlinear) deterministic dynamics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-26 Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

The thermodynamics of mesoscopic systems driven by time-varying temperatures is crucial for understanding biological systems, designing nanoscale engines, and performing micro-particle cooling. In this work, we analyze an underdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 Felipe P. Abreu , Welles A. M. Morgado

In this work, a new algorithm is proposed to compute single particle (infinite dilution) thermodiffusion using Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics simulations through the estimation of the thermophoretic force that applies on a solute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guillaume Galliéro , S. Volz

Heat transfer between a silver nanoparticle and surrounding water has been studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The thermal conductance (Kapitza conductance) at the interface between a nanoparticle and surrounding water has…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-29 Ali Rajabpour , Roham Seif , Saeed Arabha , Mohammad Mahdi Heyhat , Samy Merabia , Ali Hassanali