We review the general aspects of the concept of temperature in equilibrium and non-
equilibrium statistical mechanics. Although temperature is an old and well-established …

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 …

A trade-off between the precision of an arbitrary current and the dissipation, known as the
thermodynamic uncertainty relation, has been investigated for various Markovian systems …

The limits on a system's response to external perturbations inform our understanding of how
physical properties can be shaped by microscopic characteristics. Here, we derive …

Fluctuation–dissipation relations or “theorems”(FDTs) are fundamental for statistical physics
and can be rigorously derived for equilibrium systems. Their applicability to non-equilibrium …

We investigate the stochastic thermodynamics of a two-particle Langevin system. Each
particle is in contact with a heat bath at different temperatures T 1 and T 2 (< T 1) …

We propose and investigate a method for identifying timescales of dissipation in
nonequilibrium steady states modeled as discrete-state Markov jump processes. The …

It was predicted and recently experimentally confirmed that systems with microscopically
reversible dynamics in quadratic potentials warm up faster than they cool down. This thermal …

We derive generalized fluctuation–dissipation relations (FDR) holding for a general
stochastic dynamics that includes as subcases both equilibrium models for passive colloids …

There does not exist a general positive correlation between important life-supporting
properties and the entropy production rate. The simple reason is that nondissipative and …