Successful feedback control of small systems allows for the rectification of thermal fluctuations, converting them into useful energy; however, control itself requires work. This …
Heat engines and information engines have each historically served as motivating examples for the development of thermodynamics. While these two types of systems are typically …
M Uhl, P Pietzonka, U Seifert - Journal of Statistical Mechanics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The fluctuation theorem for entropy production is a remarkable symmetry of the distribution of produced entropy that holds universally in non-equilibrium steady states with Markovian …
M Kahlen, J Ehrich - Journal of statistical mechanics: theory and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In some situations in stochastic thermodynamics not all relevant slow degrees of freedom are accessible. Consequently, one adopts an effective description involving only the visible …
Despite their theoretical importance, dynamic Bayesian networks associated with quantum processes are currently not accessible experimentally. We here describe a general scheme …
S Gerloff, SHL Klapp - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Based on Brownian dynamics simulations, we investigate the thermodynamic signatures of nonequilibrium steady states in a confined colloidal suspension under shear flow …
Molecular machines transduce free energy between different forms throughout all living organisms. While truly machines in their own right, unlike their macroscopic counterparts …
Shear-driven colloidal suspensions in strong spatial confinement display complex non- equilibrium many-body dynamics. These stem from the intricate interplay between the …
This thesis investigates the interactions of different degrees of freedom of one joint system within the theory of stochastic thermodynamics. First, a comprehensive introduction to the …