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Micro-to-nano scale thermal devices that operate under large thermal fluctuations, are an active field of research where instead the average values, the full distributions of thermodynamic quantities are important. Here we study a model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-30 Arnab Saha , A. M. Jayannavar

A microscopic heat engine is modeled as a Brownian particle in a sawtooh potential (with load) moving through a highly viscous medium driven by the thermal kick it gets from alternately placed hot and cold heat reservoirs. We found closed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mesfin Asfaw , Mulugeta Bekele

Microscopic heat engines are microscale systems that convert energy flows between heat reservoirs into work or systematic motion. We have experimentally realized a minimal microscopic heat engine. It consists of a colloidal Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-15 Aykut Argun , Jalpa Soni , Lennart Dabelow , Stefano Bo , Giuseppe Pesce , Ralf Eichhorn , Giovanni Volpe

We model a tiny heat engine as a Brownian particle that moves in a viscous medium in a sawtooth potential (with or without load) assisted by $\it {alternately}$ placed hot and cold heat baths along its path. We find closed form expression…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mesfin Asfaw , Mulugeta Bekele

We investigate a Brownian heat engine wherein a particle moves through a periodic ratchet potential under an exponentially decreasing temperature profile, a spatial configuration that closely resembles experimentally realizable conditions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-26 Mesfin Asfaw Taye

We consider a rudimentary model for a heat engine, known as the Brownian gyrator, that consists of an overdamped system with two degrees of freedom in an anisotropic temperature field. Whereas the hallmark of the gyrator is a nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-13 Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Rui Fu , Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We explore the thermodynamics of stochastic heat engines in presence of stochastic resetting. The set-up comprises an engine whose working substance is a Brownian particle undergoing overdamped Langevin dynamics in a harmonic potential with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-24 Sourabh Lahiri , Shamik Gupta

We apply the concept of a frequency-dependent effective temperature based on the fluctuation-dissipation ratio to a driven Brownian particle in a nonequilibrium steady state. Using this system as a thermostat for a weakly coupled harmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Robert Wulfert , Michael Oechsle , Thomas Speck , Udo Seifert

We consider a Brownian particle confined by an external potential and subject to stochastic resetting to the origin. Motivated by the repetitive nature of the dynamics, we describe the process as a thermodynamic cycle of thermal expansion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-28 Oded Farago

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

In contrast to the classical concept of a Carnot engine that alternates contact between heat baths of different temperatures, naturally occurring processes usually harvest energy from anisotropy, being exposed simultaneously to chemical and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We present a method to design driving protocols that achieve fast thermal equilibration of a system of interest using techniques inspired by machine learning training algorithms. For example, consider a Brownian particle manipulated by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-25 Diego Rengifo , Gabriel Téllez

Stick-slip is a ubiquitous phenomenon in many scientific fields, such as earthquake and glacier dynamics, acoustics, cell biology, interface science and tribology. As a fundamental mechanism of energy dissipation in nanofriction, it can be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Dongyang Zhao

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

The energetics of a Brownian heat engine and heat pump driven by position dependent temperature, known as the B\"uttiker-Landauer heat engine and heat pump, is investigated by numerical simulations of the inertial Langevin equation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Ronald Benjamin

Artificial micro heat engines are prototypical models to explore and elucidate the mechanisms of energy transduction in a regime that is dominated by fluctuations [1-2]. Micro heat engines realized hitherto mimicked their macroscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Sudeesh Krishnamurthy , Subho Ghosh , Dipankar Chatterji , Rajesh Ganapathy , A. K. Sood

Low-temperature-differential (LTD) Stirling heat engines are able to operate with a small temperature difference between low-temperature heat reservoirs that exist in our daily lives, and thus they are considered to be an important…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yuki Izumida

A Stirling engine made of a colloidal particle in contact with a nonequilibrium bath is considered and analyzed with the tools of stochastic energetics. We model the bath by non Gaussian persistent noise acting on the colloidal particle.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 Ruben Zakine , Alexandre Solon , Todd Gingrich , Frédéric van Wijland

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 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