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In traditional thermodynamics the Carnot cycle yields the ideal performance bound of heat engines and refrigerators. We propose and analyze a minimal model of a heat machine that can play a similar role in quantum regimes. The minimal model…

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Achieving rapid and stable energy storage in quantum batteries (QBs) remains a key challenge, particularly under strong system-environment coupling where non-Markovian effects become prominent. While most previous studies focus on weak…

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In this article, we develop a functional-analytic framework to establish existence, uniqueness, regularity of disintegration, and statistical properties of equilibrium states for a broad class of dynamical systems, potentially discontinuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Rafael Bilbao , Rafael Lucena

In systems described by the scattering theory, there is an upper bound, lower than Carnot, on the efficiency of steady-state heat to work conversion at a given output power. We show that interacting systems can overcome such bound and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-27 Rongxiang Luo , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Jiao Wang

We formulate an endoreversible finite-time Carnot cycle model based on the assumptions of local equilibrium and constant energy flux, where the efficiency and the power are expressed in terms of the thermodynamic variables of the working…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Yuki Izumida , Koji Okuda

We study the routing problem for vehicles with limited energy through a network of inhomogeneous charging nodes. This is substantially more complicated than the homogeneous node case studied in [1]. We seek to minimize the total elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Sepideh Pourazarm , Christos G. Cassandras

A generalized multibaker map with periodic boundary conditions is shown to model boundary-driven transport, when the driving is applied by a ``perturbation'' of the dynamics localised in a macroscopically small region. In this case there…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Juergen Vollmer , Tamas Tel , Laszlo Matyas

This is the first of two articles on the study of a particle system model that exhibits a Turing instability type effect. The model is based on two discrete lines (or toruses) with Ising spins, that evolve according to a continuous time…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Monia Capanna , Nahuel Soprano-Loto

To reduce carbon emission in the transportation sector, there is currently a steady move taking place to an electrified transportation system. This brings about various issues for which a promising solution involves the construction and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Fiona Sloothaak , James R. Cruise , Seva Shneer , Maria Vlasiou , Bert Zwart

We provide a consistent thermodynamic analysis of stochastic thermal engines driven by finite-size reservoirs, which are in turn coupled to infinite-size reservoirs. We consider a cyclic operation mode, where the working medium couples…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Iago N. Mamede , Saulo V. Moreira , Mark T. Mitchison , Carlos E. Fiore

We present a new theorem describing stable solutions for a driven quantum system. The theorem, coined `inertial theorem', is applicable for fast driving, provided the acceleration rate is small. The theorem states that in the inertial limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

We describe a one-dimensional self-gravitating system derived from the problem of large-scale structure formation in cosmology. Considering small times so that the expansion can be neglected we present a thermodynamical analysis of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Patrick Valageas

Exploiting the rich phenomenology of periodically-driven many-body systems is notoriously hindered by persistent heating in both the classical and quantum realm. Here, we investigate to what extent coupling to a large thermal reservoir…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-22 Thomas Veness , Kay Brandner

We investigate the thermodynamic limit for the cubic-quintic Schr\"{o}dinger model as the size of the domain tends to infinity with fixed density $\rho= N/|\mathcal{D}|$, where $N$ denotes particle number and $|\mathcal{D}|$ denotes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Deke Li , Yuan Li , Qingxuan Wang

We derive a linear thermodynamics theory for general Markov dynamics with both steady-state and time-periodic drivings. Expressions for thermodynamic quantities, such as mechanical and chemical work, heat and entropy production are obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Karel Proesmans , Carlos E. Fiore

We study the thermodynamic cost associated with driving systems between different non-equilibrium steady states. In particular, we combine a linear-response framework for non-equilibrium Markov systems with Lagrangian techniques to minimize…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-18 Dana Kamp , Karel Proesmans

In this thesis, we propose and analyze a multi-server model that captures a performance trade-off between centralized and distributed processing. In our model, a fraction $p$ of an available resource is deployed in a centralized manner…

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We study a spatiotemporal service matching problem in which demand, heterogeneous in location and time sensitivity/preference, is to be assigned to service stations. The planner seeks to maximize social welfare, defined as total service…

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A quantum engine with n qubits performing thermodynamic cycles with two thermal reservoirs is presented. While such constructions have been aplenty, here we show the existence of what we term as "limit cycle" at a purely quantum level of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Debadrito Roy , Sudhir Ranjan Jain

We consider a nonlinear drift-diffusion system for multiple charged species in a porous medium in 2D and 3D with periodic microstructure. The system consists of a transport equation for the concentration of the species and Poisson's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Apratim Bhattacharya , Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu