Optimal protocols and universal time-energy bound in Brownian thermodynamics

We propose an optimization strategy to control the dynamics of a stochastic system transferred from one thermal equilibrium to another and apply it experimentally to a Brownian particle in an optical trap under compression. Based on a variational principle that treats the transfer duration and the e...

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Main Authors: Yoseline Rosales-Cabara, Giovanni Manfredi, Gabriel Schnoering, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, Laurent Mertz, Cyriaque Genet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-01-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.012012