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

Heat engines should ideally have large power output, operate close to Carnot efficiency and
show constancy, ie, exhibit only small fluctuations in this output. For steady-state heat …

According to the laws of thermodynamics, no heat engine can beat the efficiency of a Carnot
cycle. This efficiency traditionally comes with vanishing power output and practical designs …

When do nonequilibrium forms of disordered energy qualify as heat? We address this
question in the context of cyclically operating heat engines feeding on nonequilibrium …

We analyze the performance of slowly driven meso-and microscale refrigerators and heat
engines that operate between two thermal baths with a small temperature difference. Using …

An efficient molecular motor would deliver cargo to the target site at a high speed and in a
punctual manner while consuming a minimal amount of energy. According to a recently …

Recent years have witnessed a surge of discoveries in the studies of thermodynamic
inequalities: the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) and the entropic bound (EB) …

We propose a thermodynamically consistent minimal model to study synchronization which
is made of driven and interacting three-state units. This system exhibits at the mean-field …

All real heat engines, be it conventional macro engines or colloidal and atomic micro
engines, inevitably tradeoff efficiency in their pursuit to maximize power. This basic postulate …

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) provides a stricter bound for entropy
production (EP) than that of the thermodynamic second law. This stricter bound can be …