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 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 …

The ability to implement adiabatic processes in the mesoscale is of key importance in the
study of artificial or biological micro-and nanoengines. Microadiabatic processes have been …

The understanding of the dynamics of nonequilibrium cooling and heating processes at the
nanoscale is still an open problem. These processes can follow surprising relaxation paths …

We investigate the dynamics of single microparticles immersed in water that are driven out of
equilibrium in the presence of an additional external colored noise. As a case study, we trap …

Although the equivalence of heat and work has been unveiled since Joule's ingenious
experiment in 1845, they rarely originate from the same source in experiments. In this study …

Thermodynamics of nanoscale devices is an active area of research. Despite their noisy
surroundings, they often produce mechanical work (eg micro-heat engines) and display …

We review a series of experimental studies of the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium
processes at the microscale. In particular, in these experiments we studied the fluctuations of …

We investigate the occurrence of heat leakages in overdamped nonequilibrium Brownian
harmonic systems. We exactly compute the underdamped and overdamped stochastic heats …

We study the dynamics of the center of mass of a Brownian particle levitated in a Paul trap.
We mostly focus on the overdamped regime in the context of levitodynamics, comparing …