Artificial molecular ratchets: Tools enabling endergonic processes

T Sangchai, S Al Shehimy, E Penocchio… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐equilibrium chemical systems underpin multiple domains of contemporary interest,
including supramolecular chemistry, molecular machines, systems chemistry, prebiotic …

Mastering the non-equilibrium assembly and operation of molecular machines

C Pezzato, C Cheng, JF Stoddart… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In mechanically interlocked compounds, such as rotaxanes and catenanes, the molecules
are held together by mechanical rather than chemical bonds. These compounds can be …

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation for time-dependent driving

T Koyuk, U Seifert - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Thermodynamic uncertainty relations yield a lower bound on entropy production in terms of
the mean and fluctuations of a current. We derive their general form for systems under …

Cost and precision of Brownian clocks

AC Barato, U Seifert - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
Brownian clocks are biomolecular networks that can count time. A paradigmatic example are
proteins that go through a cycle, thus regulating some oscillatory behavior in a living system …

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of feedback control

T Sagawa, M Ueda - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012 - APS
We establish a general theory of feedback control on classical stochastic thermodynamic
systems and generalize nonequilibrium equalities such as the fluctuation theorem and the …

Thermodynamics of information processing in small systems

T Sagawa - Progress of theoretical physics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We review a general theory of thermodynamics of information processing. The background
of this topic is the recently-developed nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and quantum …

The theory of spin noise spectroscopy: a review

NA Sinitsyn, YV Pershin - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Direct measurements of spin fluctuations are becoming the mainstream approach for studies
of complex condensed matter, molecular, nuclear, and atomic systems. This review covers …

Geometric heat pump: Controlling thermal transport with time-dependent modulations

Z Wang, L Wang, J Chen, C Wang, J Ren - Frontiers of Physics, 2022 - Springer
The second law of thermodynamics dictates that heat simultaneously flows from the hot to
cold bath on average. To go beyond this picture, a range of works in the past decade show …

Efficiency of autonomous soft nanomachines at maximum power

U Seifert - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We consider nanosized artificial or biological machines working in steady state enforced by
imposing nonequilibrium concentrations of solutes or by applying external forces, torques, or …

Imitating chemical motors with optimal information motors

JM Horowitz, T Sagawa, JMR Parrondo - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
To induce transport, detailed balance must be broken. A common mechanism is to bias the
dynamics with a thermodynamic fuel, such as chemical energy. An intriguing, alternative …