Experiments in stochastic thermodynamics: Short history and perspectives

S Ciliberto - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
We summarize in this article the experiments which have been performed to test the
theoretical findings in stochastic thermodynamics such as fluctuation theorem, Jarzynski …

Towards quantum thermodynamics in electronic circuits

JP Pekola - Nature physics, 2015 - nature.com
Electronic circuits operating at sub-kelvin temperatures are attractive candidates for studying
classical and quantum thermodynamics: their temperature can be controlled and measured …

Quantum phases from competing short-and long-range interactions in an optical lattice

R Landig, L Hruby, N Dogra, M Landini, R Mottl… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Insights into complex phenomena in quantum matter can be gained from simulation
experiments with ultracold atoms, especially in cases where theoretical characterization is …

Experimental realization of a Szilard engine with a single electron

JV Koski, VF Maisi, JP Pekola… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The most succinct manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics is the limitation
imposed by the Landauer principle on the amount of heat a Maxwell demon (MD) can …

Thermodynamics with continuous information flow

JM Horowitz, M Esposito - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
We provide a unified thermodynamic formalism describing information transfers in
autonomous as well as nonautonomous systems described by stochastic thermodynamics …

Experimental observation of the role of mutual information in the nonequilibrium dynamics of a Maxwell demon

JV Koski, VF Maisi, T Sagawa, JP Pekola - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We validate experimentally a fluctuation relation known as generalized Jarzynski equality
governing the work distribution in a feedback-controlled system. The feedback control is …

The unlikely Carnot efficiency

G Verley, M Esposito, T Willaert… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The efficiency of an heat engine is traditionally defined as the ratio of its average output work
over its average input heat. Its highest possible value was discovered by Carnot in 1824 and …

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation for arbitrary initial states

K Liu, Z Gong, M Ueda - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) describes a trade-off relation between
nonequilibrium currents and entropy production and serves as a fundamental principle of …

Dynamic relaxation of a levitated nanoparticle from a non-equilibrium steady state

J Gieseler, R Quidant, C Dellago, L Novotny - Nature nanotechnology, 2014 - nature.com
Fluctuation theorems are a generalization of thermodynamics on small scales and provide
the tools to characterize the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities in non-equilibrium …

Universal bound on energy cost of bit reset in finite time

YZ Zhen, D Egloff, K Modi, O Dahlsten - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We consider how the energy cost of bit reset scales with the time duration of the protocol. Bit
reset necessarily takes place in finite time, where there is an extra penalty on top of the …