Biomolecular machines are protein complexes that convert between different forms of free
energy. They are utilized in nature to accomplish many cellular tasks. As isothermal …

We consider the optimization of a finite-time Carnot engine characterized by small
dissipations. We bound the power with a simple inequality and show that the optimal …

A central task in finite-time thermodynamics is to minimize the excess or dissipated work W
diss when manipulating the state of a system immersed in a thermal bath. We consider this …

Differential geometry offers a powerful framework for optimising and characterising finite-
time thermodynamic processes, both classical and quantum. Here, we start by a …

Nanoscale heat engines are subject to large fluctuations which affect their precision. The
thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) provides a trade-off between output power …

The dissipation generated during a quasistatic thermodynamic process can be
characterised by introducing a metric on the space of Gibbs states, in such a way that …

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 …

An important result in classical stochastic thermodynamics is the work fluctuation-dissipation
relation (FDR), which states that the dissipated work done along a slow process is …

Tremendous research efforts have been invested in exploring and designing so-called
shortcuts to adiabaticity. These are finite-time processes that produce the same final states …

Isothermal transformations are minimally dissipative but slow processes, as the system
needs to remain close to thermal equilibrium along the protocol. Here, we show that …