An application of Pontryagin's principle to Brownian particle engineered equilibration
arXiv:1707.00596 · doi:10.3390/e19070379
Abstract
We present a stylized model of controlled equilibration of a small system in a fluctuating environment. We derive the equations governing the optimal control steering \emph{in finite time} the system between two equilibrium states. The corresponding thermodynamic transition is optimal in the sense that occurs at minimum entropy if the set of admissible controls is restricted by certain bounds on the time derivatives of the protocols. We apply our equations to the engineered equilibration of an optical trap considered in a recent proof of principle experiment. We also analyze an elementary model of nucleation previously considered by Landauer to discuss the thermodynamic cost of one bit of information erasure. We expect our model to be a useful benchmark for experiment design as it exhibits the same integrability properties of well known models of optimal mass transport by a compressible velocity field.
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