Stochastic heat engines can be built using colloidal particles trapped using optical tweezers.
Here we review recent experimental realizations of microscopic heat engines. We first revisit …

The first comprehensive graduate-level introduction to stochastic thermodynamics
Stochastic thermodynamics is a well-defined subfield of statistical physics that aims to …

At the dawn of thermodynamics, Carnot's constraint on efficiency of heat engines stimulated
the formulation of one of the most universal physical principles, the second law of …

Heat engines should ideally have large power output, operate close to Carnot efficiency and
show constancy, ie, exhibit only small fluctuations in this output. For steady-state heat …

The Carnot cycle imposes a fundamental upper limit to the efficiency of a macroscopic motor
operating between two thermal baths. However, this bound needs to be reinterpreted at …

Elucidating the population dynamics of correlated electron-hole pairs (bound excitons) in
semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) is key for developing our fundamental understanding of …

We derive the statistics of the efficiency under the assumption that thermodynamic fluxes
fluctuate with normal law, parametrizing it in terms of time, macroscopic efficiency, and a …

The efficiency of quantum heat engines is a stochastic quantity owing to the presence of
thermal and quantum fluctuations. We here extend the standard two-projective …

Using the fluctuation theorem supplemented with geometric arguments, we derive universal
features of the (long-time) efficiency fluctuations for thermal and isothermal machines …

We calculate analytically the stochastic thermodynamic properties of an isothermal
Brownian engine driven by a duo of time-periodic forces, including its Onsager coefficients …