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 …

Recent theoretical developments in information thermodynamics elucidated the link
between the acquired information and the entropy production through measurement and …

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 …

It is investigated whether non-Markovianity, ie, the memory effects resulting from the
coupling of the system to its environment, can be beneficial for the performance of quantum …

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

Fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities become non-negligible and play an important role
when the system size is small. We develop finite-time thermodynamics of fluctuations in …

Nanoscale machines are strongly influenced by thermal fluctuations, contrary to their
macroscopic counterparts. As a consequence, even the efficiency of such microscopic …

Understanding noisy information engines is a fundamental problem of non-equilibrium
physics, particularly in biomolecular systems agitated by thermal and active fluctuations in …

We study the efficiency fluctuations of a stochastic heat engine made of N interacting
unicyclic machines and undergoing a phase transition in the macroscopic limit. Depending …