Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Comprehensible introduction to stochastic thermodynamics
- Provides a rich collection of exactly solvable models from stochastic thermodynamics
- All models are comprehensively illustrated
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Various experimental techniques have been advanced in recent years to measure non-equilibrium energy transformations on the microscopic scale of single molecules. In general, the systems studied in the corresponding experiments are exposed to strong thermal fluctuations and thus the relevant energetic variables such as work and heat become stochastic.
This thesis addresses challenging theoretical problems in this active field of current research: 1) Exact analytical solutions of work and heat distributions for isothermal non-equilibrium processes in suitable models are obtained; 2) Corresponding solutions for cyclic processes involving two different heat reservoirs are found; 3) Optimization of periodic driving protocols for such cyclic processes with respect to maximal output power, efficiency and minimal power fluctuations is studied.
The exact solutions for work and heat distributions provide a reference for theoretical investigations of more complicated models, giving insight into the structure of the tail of work distributions and serving as valuable test cases for simulations of the underlying stochastic processes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-equilibrium Energy Transformation Processes
Book Subtitle: Theoretical Description at the Level of Molecular Structures
Authors: Viktor Holubec
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07091-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07090-2Published: 11 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36064-5Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07091-9Published: 22 May 2014
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 152
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Thermodynamics, Complex Systems, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems