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Collisional Brownian engines have attracted significant attention due to their simplicity, experimental accessibility, and amenability to exact analytical solutions. While previous research has predominantly focused on optimizing mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-11 Gustavo A. L. Forão , Fernando S. Filho , Pedro V. Paraguassú

We study the limitations on coherence evolutions under the constraints of thermodynamic laws, and focus on the optimal thermal operations (TO) reaching the bounds. For qubit case, we find a thermal operation involving only a single-mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Xueyuan Hu

We provide a stochastic thermodynamic description across scales for $N$ identical units with all-to-all interactions that are driven away from equilibrium by different reservoirs and external forces. We start at the microscopic level with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-07 Tim Herpich , Tommaso Cossetto , Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

We investigate the thermodynamic behaviour of a Bose gas interacting with repulsive forces and confined in a harmonic anisotropic trap. We develop the formalism of mean field theory for non uniform systems at finite temperature, based on…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Giorgini , L. P. Pitaevskii , S. Stringari

We investigate a model of a stochastic engine operating cyclically at constant bath temperature, which consists of an overdamped Brownian harmonic oscillator that plays the role of working substance and is elastically coupled to an active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Erick Efrain Cote-Valencia , Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

We investigate the efficiency of an isothermal Brownian work-to-work converter engine, composed of a Brownian particle coupled to a heat bath at a constant temperature. The system is maintained out of equilibrium by using two external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Deepak Gupta , Sanjib Sabhapandit

In the real world, one almost never knows the parameters of a thermodynamic process to infinite precision. Reflecting this, here we investigate how to extend stochastic thermodynamics to systems with uncertain parameters, including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jan Korbel , David H. Wolpert

The recently established connection between stochastic thermodynamics and fluctuating hydrodynamics is applied to a study of efficiencies in the coupled transport of heat and matter on a small scale. A stochastic model for a mesoscopic cell…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-01 Jean-François Derivaux , Yannick De Decker

We examine a quantum Otto engine with a harmonic working medium consisting of two particles to explore the use of wave function symmetry as an accessible resource. It is shown that the bosonic system displays enhanced performance when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-28 Nathan M. Myers , Sebastian Deffner

In the present paper, we study the power output and efficiency of overdamped stochastic thermodynamic engines that are in contact with a heat bath having a temperature that varies periodically with time. This is in contrast to most of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-13 Rui Fu , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Optimization of cyclic stochastic heat engines, a topic spanning decades of research, commonly assumes fixed control or response parameters at discrete points in the cycle-a limitation that often leads to experimentally impractical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-02 Monojit Chatterjee , Viktor Holubec , Rahul Marathe

We introduce and analyze a class of heat engines composed of interacting units, in which the thermal reservoir is associated with the neighborhood surrounding each unit. These systems can be mapped onto stochastic opinion models and are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Carlos E. Fiore

One of the major challenges in stochastic thermodynamics is to compute the distributions of stochastic observables for small-scale systems for which fluctuations play a significant role. Hitherto much theoretical and experimental research…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-08 Deepak Gupta , David A. Sivak

We demonstrate that flat-band engineering provides a direct route to control and optimize the thermodynamic performance of quantum heat engines. We consider noninteracting bosons on a rhombi-chain lattice described by a Bose-Hubbard model…

We propose a thermodynamically consistent minimal model to study synchronization which is made of driven and interacting three-state units. This system exhibits at the mean-field level two bifurcations separating three dynamical phases: a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Tim Herpich , Juzar Thingna , Massimiliano Esposito

The coupling of two-level quantum systems to the thermal environment is a fundamental problem, with applications ranging from qubit state preparation to spin models. However, for the elementary problem of the thermodynamics of an ensemble…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-29 Christian Kurtscheid , Andreas Redmann , Frank Vewinger , Julian Schmitt , Martin Weitz

We summarize and extend some of the results obtained recently for the microscopic and macroscopic behavior of a pinned harmonic chain, with random velocity flips at Poissonian times, acted on by a periodic force {at one end} and in contact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-17 Tomasz Komorowski , Joel Lebowitz , Stefano Olla , Marielle Simon

A quantum heat engine (QHE) based on the interaction driving of a many-particle working medium is introduced. The cycle alternates isochoric heating and cooling strokes with both interaction-driven processes that are simultaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Yang-Yang Chen , Gentaro Watanabe , Yi-Cong Yu , Xi-Wen Guan , Adolfo del Campo

We study the entanglement and work statistics in a driven two-qubit system. The regulation of periodic driving has much more versatility and universality in contrast to reservoir engineering in static systems. We found the quasi-steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 He Wang , Jin Wang

We present the closed loop approach to linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics considering a generic heat engine dissipatively connected to two temperature baths. The system is usually quite generally characterized by two parameters: the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 C. Goupil , H. Ouerdane , E. Herbert , G. Benenti , Y. D'Angelo , Ph. Lecoeur