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Recent years have witnessed a surge of discoveries in the studies of thermodynamic inequalities: the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) and the entropic bound (EB) provide a lower bound on the entropy production (EP) in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-06 Euijoon Kwon , Jong-Min Park , Jae Sung Lee , Yongjoo Baek

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, which establishes a universal trade-off between the relative fluctuation of arbitrary currents and the dissipation, has been found for various Markovian systems. However, this relation has not been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Quantum conductors attached to metallic reservoirs have been demonstrated to overcome the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR), a trade-off relation between the amount of dissipation and the absence of charge and heat current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 David Christian Ohnmacht , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Wolfgang Belzig , Rosa López , Jong Soo Lim , Kun Woo Kim

We analyze the steady-state formalism for optimizing the cooling power of a thermoelectric refrigerator (TER), unifying the endoreversible and exoreversible approximations within one framework. Although the cooling power is non-optimizable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rajeshree Chakraborty , Ramandeep S. Johal

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) impose a universal trade-off between current precision and entropy production in autonomous steady states, constraining in particular the power, efficiency, and constancy of heat engines. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Enrique P. Cital , Viktor Holubec

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) represent a benchmark result in nonequilibrium physics that allows to place fundamental lower bounds on the noise-to-signal ratio (precision) of currents in nanoscale devices. Originally formulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Andre M. Timpanaro , Giacomo Guarnieri , Gabriel T. Landi

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, originally derived for classical Markov-jump processes, provides a trade-off relation between precision and dissipation, deepening our understanding of the performance of quantum thermal machines.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Junjie Liu , Dvira Segal

We use the fundamental nonequilibrium steady-state fluctuation symmetry and derive a condition on the validity of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) in thermal transport problems, classical or quantum alike. We test this condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Sushant Saryal , Hava Friedman , Dvira Segal , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation is an inequality stating that it is impossible to attain higher precision than the bound defined by entropy production. In statistical inference theory, information inequalities assert that it is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Yoshihiko Hasegawa , Tan Van Vu

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations quantifying a trade-off between current fluctuation and entropy production have been found in various stochastic systems. Herein, we study the thermodynamic uncertainty relations for Langevin systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We investigate the thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) in steady-state transport for a multi-terminal system consisting of two conducting terminals and N-2 probe terminals, within the linear response regime under broken time-reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-07 Yanchao Zhang , Xinzhi Liu , Xiaolong Lü , Shanhe Su

Nanoscale heat engines are subject to large fluctuations which affect their precision. The Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation (TUR) provides a trade-off between output power, fluctuations and entropic cost. This trade-off may be overcome by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Alex Arash Sand Kalaee , Andreas Wacker , Patrick P. Potts

We consider feedback cooling in a cavityless levitated optomechanics setup, and we investigate the possibility to improve the feedback implementation. We apply optimal control theory to derive the optimal feedback signal both for quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Luca Ferialdi , Ashley Setter , Marko Toroš , Chris Timberlake , Hendrik Ulbricht

We discuss how to use correlations between different physical observables to improve recently obtained thermodynamics bounds, notably the fluctuation-response inequality (FRI) and the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR). We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-10 Andreas Dechant , Shin-ichi Sasa

We investigate a two-qubit SWAP thermal machine -- a streamlined analogue of the four-stroke Otto cycle -- whose working medium comprises inertially moving Unruh-DeWitt qubit detectors, each coupled to a thermal quantum field bath prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Dimitris Moustos , Obinna Abah

Thermodynamic principles governing energy and information are important tools for a deeper understanding and better control of quantum systems. In this work, we experimentally investigate the interplay of the thermodynamic costs and…

For continuous-time Markov jump processes on irreducible networks with time-independent rate constants, we employ a transition-based formalism to express the long-time precision of a single integrated current over an observable channel in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Alberto Garilli , Diego Frezzato

Autonomous engines operating at the nano-scale can be prone to deleterious fluctuations in the heat and particle currents which increase, for fixed power output, the more reversible the operation regime is. This fundamental trade-off…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Giacomo Guarnieri , Gabriel T. Landi , Stephen R. Clark , John Goold

In classical Markov jump processes, current fluctuations can only be reduced at the cost of increased dissipation. To explore how quantum effects influence this trade-off, we analyze the uncertainty of steady-state currents in Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-09 Paul Menczel , Eetu Loisa , Kay Brandner , Christian Flindt

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations (TURs) are relations that establish lower bounds for the relative fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities in terms of the statistics of the associated entropy production. In this work we derive a family…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 André M. Timpanaro