Obtaining efficient thermal engines from interacting Brownian particles under time-periodic drivings

IN Mamede, PE Harunari, BAN Akasaki, K Proesmans… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We introduce an alternative route for obtaining reliable cyclic engines, based on two
interacting Brownian particles under time-periodic drivings which can be used as a work-to …

Efficient asymmetric collisional Brownian particle engines

CEF Noa, ALL Stable, WGC Oropesa, A Rosas… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The construction of efficient thermal engines operating at finite times constitutes a
fundamental and timely topic in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. We introduce a strategy for …

Maximal power for heat engines: Role of asymmetric interaction times

PE Harunari, FS Filho, CE Fiore, A Rosas - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
The performance of endoreversible thermal machines operating at finite power constitutes
one of the main challenges of nonequilibrium classical and quantum thermodynamics …

Obtaining efficient collisional engines via velocity-dependent drivings

IN Mamede, ALL Stable, CE Fiore - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Brownian particles interacting sequentially with distinct temperatures and driving forces at
each stroke have been tackled as a reliable alternative for the construction of engine setups …

Entropy production and Onsager reciprocal relations describing the relaxation to equilibrium in stochastic thermodynamics

S Giordano - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study the relation between stochastic thermodynamics and nonequilibrium
thermodynamics by evaluating the entropy production and the relation between fluxes and …

Thermodynamics and efficiency of sequentially collisional Brownian particles: The role of drivings

FS Filho, BAN Akasaki, CEF Noa, B Cleuren, CE Fiore - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Brownian particles placed sequentially in contact with distinct thermal reservoirs and
subjected to external driving forces are promising candidates for the construction of reliable …

Nonergodic Brownian oscillator

AV Plyukhin - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We consider an open (Brownian) classical harmonic oscillator in contact with a non-
Markovian thermal bath and described by the generalized Langevin equation. When the …

Heat modulation on target thermal bath via coherent auxiliary bath

WL Yu, T Li, H Li, Y Zhang, J Zou, YD Wang - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
We study a scheme of thermal management where a three-qubit system assisted with a
coherent auxiliary bath (CAB) is employed to implement heat management on a target …

Thermodynamics of a minimal interacting heat engine: Comparison between engine designs

F Hawthorne, B Cleuren, CE Fiore - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Collective effects stemming from many interacting units have attracted remarkable recent
interest, not only for their presence in several systems in nature but also for the possibility of …

Enhancement of charging performance of quantum battery via quantum coherence of bath

WL Yu, Y Zhang, H Li, GF Wei, LP Han, F Tian… - Chinese Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
An open quantum battery (QB) model of a single qubit system charging in a coherent
auxiliary bath (CAB) consisting of a series of independent coherent ancillae is considered …