Stochastic Work Extraction in a colloidal heat engine in presence of colored noise

Abstract

From synthetic active devices such as self-propelling Janus colloids to micro-organisms like bacteria, micro-algae, living cells in tissues, active fluctuations are ubiquitous. Thermodynamics of small systems involving thermal as well as active fluctuations are of immense importance. They can be employed to extract thermodynamic work. Here we propose a simple model system that can produce thermodynamic work exploiting active fluctuations. We consider a Brownian particle, trapped by an externally controlled harmonic confinement which time-periodically contracts and expands by modulating its spring constant e.g an optical tweezer. The system produces work by being alternately connected to two baths one passive and other active, modeled as exponentially correlated noise which breaks the fluctuation dissipation theorem. The average efficiency of the system is calculated exactly in quasistatic limit. Nonquasistatic regime is explored by numerics. Comparing with its passive counterpart, we also show that the active micro heat engine can be more efficient depending on the chosen parameter space. We also believe that our model can be realized experimentally with the help of bacterial baths.

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