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Stochastic thermodynamics has revolutionized our understanding of heat engines operating in finite time. Recently, numerous studies have considered the optimal operation of thermodynamic cycles acting as heat engines with a given profile in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-15 Adam G. Frim , Michael R. DeWeese

Self-propelled particles can navigate complex environments, including viscous fluid interfaces with curved geometries. In this work, we study the emergent dynamics of a suspension of self-propelled particles confined to a stationary curved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuzhu Chen , Vishal P. Patil , David Saintillan

Driven non-equilibrium lattice models have wide-ranging applications in contexts such as mass transport, traffic flow, and transport in biological systems. In this work, we investigate the steady-state properties of a one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Swastik Majumder , Mustansir Barma

The context of the present paper is stochastic thermodynamics - an approach to nonequilibrium thermodynamics rooted within the broader framework of stochastic control. In contrast to the classical paradigm of Carnot engines, we herein…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Rui Fu , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We investigate the model of "reversible ratchet" with interacting particles, introduced by us earlier [Europhys. Lett. 84, 50009 (2008)]. We further clarify the effect of efficiency enhancement due to interaction and show that it is of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Frantisek Slanina

Dynamical clustering represents a characteristic feature of active matter consisting of self-propelled agents that convert energy from the environment into mechanical motion. At the micron scale, typical of overdamped dynamics, particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Lorenzo Caprini , Davide Breoni , Anton Ldov , Christian Scholz , Hartmut Löwen

We investigate stochastic thermodynamics of a two-particles Langevin system. Each particle is in contact with a heat bath at different temperatures $T_1$ and $T_2~(<T_1)$, respectively. Particles are trapped by a harmonic potential and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-29 Jong-Min Park , Hyun-Myung Chun , Jae Dong Noh

Under normal operations, memristive devices undergo variability in time and space and have internal dynamics. Interplay of memory and stochastic signal processing in memristive devices makes them candidates for performing bio-inspired tasks…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-01 P. F. Gora , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

We investigate the statistics of the fluctuations of the energy transfer between an overdamped Brownian particle, whose motion is confined by a stationary harmonic potential, and a surrounding viscoelastic fluid at constant temperature. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-19 Farshad Darabi , Brandon R. Ferrer , Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

Manipulation of large systems of active particles is a serious challenge across diverse domains, including crowd management, control of robotic swarms, and coordinated material transport. The development of advanced control strategies for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Albina Klepach , Egor E. Nuzhin , Alexey A. Tsukanov , Nikolay V. Brilliantov

In this article, we study the physics of charged particle energization inside a strongly turbulent plasma, where current sheets naturally appear in evolving large-scale magnetic topologies, but they are split into two populations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Nikos Sioulas , Heinz Isliker , Loukas Vlahos

We propose a four level quantum heat engine in Otto cycle with a working substance of two spins subject to an external magnetic field and coupled to each other by a one-axis twisting spin squeezing nonlinear interaction. We calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Ferdi Altintas , Ali Ü. C. Hardal , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We develop an electrokinetic technique that continuously manipulates colloidal particles to concentrate into patterned particulate groups in an energy efficient way, by exclusive harnessing of the intrinsic Joule heating effects. Our…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Golak Kunti , Jayabrata Dhar , Anandaroop Bhattacharya , Suman Chakraborty

Microscopic thermal machines that are of the dimensions of around few hundred nanometers have been the subject of intense study over the last two decades. Recently, it has been shown that the efficiency of such thermal engines can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-03 Aradhana Kumari , Sourabh Lahiri

The performance of endoreversible thermal machines operating at finite power constitutes one of the main challenges of nonequilibrium classical and quantum thermodynamics, engineering and others. We introduce the idea of adjusting the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-16 Pedro E. Harunari , Fernando S. Filho , Carlos E. Fiore , Alexandre Rosas

We numerically demonstrate bidirectional sorting of flocking particles interacting with an array of asymmetric barriers. Each particle aligns with the average swimming direction of its neighbors according to the Vicsek model and experiences…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Jeffrey A. Drocco , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Active particles with a temperature distribution, "hot particles", have a distinct effect on the fluid that surrounds them. The temperature gradients they create deem the fluid's viscosity spatially dependent, therefore violating the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-27 Osher Arbib , Naomi Oppenheimer

We simulate clustering, phase separation and hexatic ordering in a monolayered suspension of active squirming disks subject to an attractive Lennard-Jones-like pairwise interaction potential, taking hydrodynamic interactions between the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-31 Ricard Matas Navarro , Suzanne Fielding

Particles moving in oscillating potential with broken mirror symmetry are considered. We calculate their energetic efficiency, when acting as molecular motors carrying a load against external force. It is shown that interaction between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-03 Frantisek Slanina

We investigate the performance of a Brownian heat engine working in a heterogeneous thermal bath where the mobility fluctuates. Brownian particle is trapped by the time-dependent harmonic potential, by changing the stiffness coefficient and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-20 I. Iyyappan , Jetin E. Thomas , Sibasish Ghosh