Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts
of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic …

We present and characterize a method to accelerate the relaxation of a Brownian object
between two distinct equilibrium states. Instead of relying on a deterministic time-dependent …

By controlling the variance of the radiation pressure exerted on an optically trapped
microsphere in real time, we engineer temperature protocols that shortcut thermal relaxation …

In low-dimensional systems, indistinguishable particles can display statistics that interpolate
between bosons and fermions. Signatures of these “anyons” have been detected in two …

Obtaining adiabatic processes that connect equilibrium states in a given time represents a
challenge for mesoscopic systems. In this paper, we explicitly show how to build these finite …

Realizing quasistatic processes in finite times requires additional control parameters to keep
the system in instantaneous equilibrium (ieq). However, the finite-rate ieq transition of the …

We report on speeding-up equilibrium recovery in the previously unexplored general case of
the underdamped regime using an optically levitated particle. We accelerate the …

We consider the instantaneous equilibrium (ieq) transition of an underdamped Brownian
particle under arbitrary time-dependent temperature and potential variations and derive …

We present a technique for efficiently transitioning a quantum system from an initial to a final
stationary state in less time than is required by an adiabatic (quasistatic) process. Our …

We characterize throughout the spectral range of an optical trap the nature of the noise that
drives the Brownian motion of an overdamped trapped single microsphere and its ergodicity …