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

A fundamental result of thermodynamic geometry is that the optimal, minimal-work protocol
that drives a nonequilibrium system between two thermodynamic states in the slow-driving …

Recent advances in experimental control of colloidal systems have spurred a revolution in
the production of mesoscale thermodynamic devices. Functional “textbook” engines, such as …

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 …

We consider a rudimentary model for a heat engine, known as the Brownian gyrator, that
consists of an overdamped system with two degrees of freedom in an anisotropic …

Heat engines and information engines have each historically served as motivating examples
for the development of thermodynamics. While these two types of systems are typically …

We look into the minimization of the connection time between nonequilibrium steady states.
As a prototypical example of an intrinsically nonequilibrium system, a driven granular gas is …

Optimization of heat engines at the microscale has applications in biological and artificial
nanotechnology and stimulates theoretical research in nonequilibrium statistical physics …

The purpose of this paper is to present the concept of an autonomous Stirling-like engine
powered by anisotropy of thermodynamic fluctuations. Specifically, simultaneous contact of …

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 …