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Heat engines should ideally have large power output, operate close to Carnot efficiency and show constancy, i.e., exhibit only small fluctuations in this output. For steady-state heat engines, driven by a constant temperature difference…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-15 Patrick Pietzonka , Udo Seifert

We show that for systems with broken time-reversal symmetry the maximum efficiency and the efficiency at maximum power are both determined by two parameters: a "figure of merit" and an asymmetry parameter. In contrast to the time-symmetric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Giuliano Benenti , Keiji Saito , Giulio Casati

Power and efficiency are fundamental criteria for evaluating the performance of thermodynamic cycles. However, it is generally impossible to maximize both simultaneously. In particular, achieving maximum efficiency inevitably leads to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-28 R. X. Zhai , Xin Yue , C. P. Sun

We study the minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines in which the time-reversal symmetry for the systems may b e broken. The expressions for the power and the efficiency are derived, in which the effects of the nonlinear terms due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Qin Liu , Wei Li , Min Zhang , Jizhou He , Jianhui Wang

According to Thermodynamics, the efficiency of a heat engine is upper bounded by Carnot efficiency. For macroscopic systems, the Carnot efficiency is, however, achieved only for quasi static processes. And, considerable attention has been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-03 Takaaki Monnai

We study bounds on ratios of fluctuations in steady-state time-reversal heat engines controlled by multi affinities. In the linear response regime, we prove that the relative fluctuations (precision) of the output current (power) is always…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-17 Sushant Saryal , Matthew Gerry , Ilia Khait , Dvira Segal , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

We consider the quality factor Q, which quantifies the trade-off between power, efficiency, and fluctuations in steady-state heat engines modeled by dynamical systems. We show that the nonlinear scattering theory, both in classical and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Jiao Wang

We examine the efficiency of an effective two-terminal thermoelectric device under broken time-reversal symmetry. The setup is derived from a three-terminal thermoelectric device comprising a thermal terminal and two electronic contacts,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Kaoru Yamamoto , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony , Naomichi Hatano

For a generic class of machines with broken time-reversal symmetry we show that in the linear response regime the relative fluctuation of the sum of output currents for time-forward and time-reversed processes is always lower bounded by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-12 Sushant Saryal , Sandipan Mohanta , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

The trade-off between large power output, high efficiency and small fluctuations in the operation of heat engines has recently received interest in the context of thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs). Here we provide a concrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Sara Kheradsoud , Nastaran Dashti , Maciej Misiorny , Patrick P. Potts , Janine Splettstoesser , Peter Samuelsson

Universal properties of the statistics of stochastic efficiency for mesoscopic time-reversal symmetry broken energy transducers are revealed in the Gaussian approximation. We also discuss how the second law of thermodynamics restricts the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-23 Jian-Hua Jiang , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

We study the performance of a three-terminal thermoelectric device such as heat engine and refrigerator with broken time-reversal symmetry by applying the unified trade-off figure of merit ($\dot{\Omega}$ criterion) which accounts for both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 I. Iyyappan , M. Ponmurugan

Starting with Carnot engine, the ideal efficiency of a heat engine has been associated with quasi-static transformations and vanishingly small output power. Here, we exactly calculate the thermodynamic properties of a isothermal heat…

Efficiency and power are two central measures of the performance of thermal machines. We here study the power-efficiency-stability trade-off in a finite-time quantum Carnot information engine, in which an information reservoir replaces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Milton Aguilar , Cüneyt Ünal , Eric Lutz

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations express a trade-off between precision, defined as the noise-to-signal ratio of a generic current, and the amount of associated entropy production. These results have deep consequences for autonomous heat…

We discuss the efficiency of a heat engine operating in a nonequilibrium steady state maintained by two heat reservoirs. Within the general framework of linear irreversible thermodynamics we derive a universal upper bound on the efficiency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-18 Artem Ryabov , Viktor Holubec

We investigate thermoelectric efficiency of systems with broken time reversal symmetry under a three-terminal transport. Using a model of Aharonov-Bohm interferometer formed with three noninteracting quantum dots, we show that Carnot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati

We derive a universal thermodynamic uncertainty relation for Fermionic coherent transport, which bounds the total rate of entropy production in terms of the mean and fluctuations of a single particle current. This bound holds for any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-29 Kay Brandner , Keiji Saito

We present a general framework for determining the power-efficiency trade-off relations across arbitrary thermal machines, addressing the lack of unified optimization results stemming from their diverse functionalities (e.g., heat engines,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-20 Yu-Han Ma , Cong Fu

In this paper, we derive a number of inequalities which express power-efficiency trade-offs that hold generally for thermodynamic machines operating in non-equilibrium stationary states. One of these inequalities concerns the output power,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Hadrien Vroylandt , David Lacoste , Gatien Verley
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