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Optimal potentials for temperature ratchets
Florian Berger, Tim Schmiedl, Udo Seifert
In a spatially periodic temperature profile, directed transport of an overdamped Brownian particle can be induced along a periodic potential. With a load force applied to the parti…
Optimal protocols for minimal work processes in underdamped stochastic thermodynamics
Alex Gomez-Marin, Tim Schmiedl, Udo Seifert
For systems in an externally controllable time-dependent potential, the optimal protocol minimizes the mean work spent in a finite-time transition between two given equilibrium sta…
Efficiency of molecular motors at maximum power
Tim Schmiedl, Udo Seifert
Molecular motors transduce chemical energy obtained from hydrolizing ATP into mechanical work exerted against an external force. We calculate their efficiency at maximum power outp…
Efficiency at maximum power: An analytically solvable model for stochastic heat engines
Tim Schmiedl, Udo Seifert
We study a class of cyclic Brownian heat engines in the framework of finite-time thermodynamics. For infinitely long cycle times, the engine works at the Carnot efficiency limit pr…
Optimal finite-time processes in stochastic thermodynamics
Tim Schmiedl, Udo Seifert
For a small system like a colloidal particle or a single biomolecule embedded in a heat bath, the optimal protocol of an external control parameter minimizes the mean work required…
Stochastic thermodynamics of chemical reaction networks
Tim Schmiedl, Udo Seifert
For chemical reaction networks described by a master equation, we define energy and entropy on a stochastic trajectory and develop a consistent nonequilibrium thermodynamic descrip…