Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems and molecular machines

U Seifert - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Stochastic thermodynamics as reviewed here systematically provides a framework for
extending the notions of classical thermodynamics such as work, heat and entropy …

Inelastic thermoelectric transport and fluctuations in mesoscopic systems

R Wang, C Wang, J Lu, JH Jiang - Advances in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In the past decade, a new research frontier emerges at the interface between physics and
renewable energy, termed as inelastic thermoelectric effects, where inelastic transport …

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 …

Berry-phase-induced heat pumping and its impact on the fluctuation theorem

J Ren, P Hänggi, B Li - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Applying adiabatic, cyclic two-parameter modulations we investigate quantum heat transfer
across an anharmonic molecular junction contacted with two heat baths. We demonstrate …

Geometric thermodynamic uncertainty relation in a periodically driven thermoelectric heat engine

J Lu, Z Wang, J Peng, C Wang, JH Jiang, J Ren - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, quantifying a trade-off among average current, the
associated fluctuation (precision), and entropy production (cost), has been formulated at …

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 …

Emerging of stochastic dynamical equalities and steady state thermodynamics from Darwinian dynamics

P Ao - Communications in theoretical physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The evolutionary dynamics first conceived by Darwin and Wallace, referring to as Darwinian
dynamics in the present paper, has been found to be universally valid in biology. The …

Directed flow in nonadiabatic stochastic pumps

S Rahav, J Horowitz, C Jarzynski - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We analyze the operation of a molecular machine driven by the nonadiabatic variation of
external parameters. We derive a formula for the integrated flow from one configuration to …

Unifying quantum heat transfer in a nonequilibrium spin-boson model with full counting statistics

C Wang, J Ren, J Cao - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
To study the full counting statistics of quantum heat transfer in a driven nonequilibrium spin-
boson model, we develop a generalized nonequilibrium polaron-transformed Redfield …

Optimal signal processing in small stochastic biochemical networks

E Ziv, I Nemenman, CH Wiggins - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
We quantify the influence of the topology of a transcriptional regulatory network on its ability
to process environmental signals. By posing the problem in terms of information theory, we …