Second moments of work and heat for a single particle stochastic heat engine in a breathing harmonic potential

Abstract

We consider a simple model of a stochastic heat engine, which consists of a single Brownian particle moving in a one-dimensional periodically breathing harmonic potential. Overdamped limit is assumed. Expressions of second moments (variances and covariances ) of heat and work are obtained in the form of integrals, whose integrands contain functions satisfying certain differential equations. The results in the quasi-static limit are simple functions of temperatures of hot and cold thermal baths. The coefficient of variation of the work is suggested to give an approximate probability for the work to exceeds a certain threshold. During derivation, we get the expression of the cumulant-generating function.

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