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19972026
most citedWork extremum principle: Structure and function of quantum heat engines

152 citations · 868 across the 65 of their papers we have counts for

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67 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Inertia-Driven Information Flow and Symmetry Breaking in a Nonequilibrium Two-Bead System

Jetin E. Thomas, Ramandeep S. Johal

We investigate information-flow generation in a nonequilibrium two-bead system coupled to two heat baths. We show that the system acts as an information-flow generator in both over…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Kinetic temperatures and inertial effects in a nonequilibrium bead-spring model

Jetin E Thomas, Ramandeep S. Johal

We investigate a nonequilibrium steady-state model consisting of two coupled beads with arbitrary masses in contact with two thermal baths at different temperatures. Using a covari…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Endoreversible Carnot machines with long-time reversible limit

Ramandeep S. Johal, Rajeshree Chakraborty

The well-known Curzon-Ahlborn (CA) engine [Am. J. Phys. {\bf 43}, 22 (1975)] runs in finite time and yields a finite power output. In order to recover the standard Carnot cycle fro…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Optimization of cooling power of a thermoelectric refrigerator: A unified approach

Rajeshree Chakraborty, Ramandeep S. Johal

We analyze the steady-state formalism for optimizing the cooling power of a thermoelectric refrigerator (TER), unifying the endoreversible and exoreversible approximations within o…

quant-ph2026

Virtual temperatures as a key quantifier for passive states in quantum thermodynamic processes

Sachin Sonkar, Ramandeep S. Johal

We analyze the role of virtual temperatures for passive quantum states through the lens of majorization theory. A mean temperature over the virtual temperatures of adjacent energy…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Nonequilibrium steady states in bead-spring models: Entropy production and probability distributions

Jetin E Thomas, Ramandeep S. Johal

We study non-equilibrium models comprising of beads connected by springs. The system is coupled to two thermal baths kept at different temperatures. We derive the steady state prob…