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most citedEfficiency at maximum power of minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines

155 citations · 720 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Beyond low-dissipation regime: general condition for Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency

Yuki Izumida

In recent years, physicists have extensively investigated the universality of Curzon-Ahlborn (CA) efficiency as the efficiency at maximum power of heat engines, which, like Carnot…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Irreversibility of many-body harmonic oscillators characterized by generalized Husimi's adiabaticity parameter

Kyosuke Watanabe, Yuki Izumida

In a classical paper [K. Husimi, Prog. Theor. Phys. 9, 381 (1953)], Husimi showed that, for a single harmonic oscillator with a time-dependent angular frequency and initial conditi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Universal Thermodynamic Law Governing Stochastic Pendulum Clocks

Yuki Izumida

Clocks' performance, especially their precision, is fundamentally limited by thermodynamic laws as they are physical devices. Yet, it is known that the established thermodynamic un…

nlin.AO2026

Determining Critical Temperature Differences of Low-Temperature-Differential Stirling Engines: Nonlinear Dynamics Approach

Momoko Amemiya, Yuki Izumida

While the low-temperature-differential (LTD) Stirling engines are innovative engines that can operate with low temperature differentials in our daily life, the problem of determini…

physics.soc-ph2026

Mean-Field Theory for Heider Balance under Heterogeneous Social Temperatures

Zhen Li, Yuki Izumida

Heider balance theory provides a fundamental framework for understanding the formation of friendly and hostile relations in social networks. Existing stochastic formulations typica…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Irreversibility of the pendulum revisited from Husimi's adiabaticity parameter

Yuki Izumida

We revisit the irreversibility of the pendulum with time-dependent angular frequency, considered in a classical paper by K. Husimi. He introduced a parameter that measures the adia…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Nonlinear refrigerator with a finite-sized cold heat bath

I. Iyyappan, Yuki Izumida, Sibasish Ghosh

We study the refrigerator working between a finite-sized cold heat bath and an infinite-sized hot heat bath (environment) in the nonlinear response regime. We assume that the initi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of populations of weakly-coupled low-temperature-differential Stirling engines with synchronous and asynchronous transitions

Songhao Yin, Hiroshi Kori, Yuki Izumida

This study developed the theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for populations of low-temperature-differential (LTD) Stirling engines weakly-coupled in a general class of network…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Formulation of Entropy through Work by Carnot Machine and Direct Derivation of Law of Entropy Non-Decrease from Kelvin-Planck Principle

Yuki Izumida

We derive the law of entropy non-decrease directly from the Kelvin-Planck principle for simple and compound systems without using the Clausius inequality. A key of the derivation i…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 1 cited

Decomposition of metric tensor in thermodynamic geometry in terms of relaxation timescales

Zhen Li, Yuki Izumida

Geometrical methods are extensively applied to thermodynamics including stochastic thermodynamics. In the case of slow-driving linear response regime, a geometrical framework, know…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Non-unique detailed constructions of Curzon-Ahlborn cycle on thermodynamic plane

Yuki Izumida

The Curzon-Ahlborn (CA) cycle is a paradigmatic model of endoreversible heat engines, which yields the so-called CA efficiency as the efficiency at maximum power. Due to the arbitr…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Transportation efficiency of hydrodynamically coupled spherical oscillators in low Reynolds number fluids

Weiwei Su, Yuki Izumida, Hiroshi Kori

Most bacteria are driven by the cilia or flagella, consisting of a long filament and a rotary molecular motor through a short flexible hook. The beating pattern of these filaments…

nlin.AO2023

Synchronization approach to achieving maximum power and thermal efficiency for weakly-coupled low-temperature-differential Stirling engines

Songhao Yin, Hiroshi Kori, Yuki Izumida

Low-temperature-differential (LTD) Stirling engines are heat engines that can operate autonomously with a slight temperature difference between low-temperature heat reservoirs and…

nlin.CD2023★ 2 cited

Thermodynamic efficiency of atmospheric motion governed by Lorenz system

Zhen Li, Yuki Izumida

The Lorenz system was derived on the basis of a model of convective atmospheric motions and may serve as a paradigmatic model for considering a complex climate system. In this stud…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023

Non-quasistatic response coefficients and dissipated availability for macroscopic thermodynamic systems

Yuki Izumida

The characterization of finite-time thermodynamic processes is of crucial importance for extending equilibrium thermodynamics to nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The central issue is…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Irreversible efficiency and Carnot theorem for heat engines operating with multiple heat baths in linear response regime

Yuki Izumida

The Carnot theorem, one expression of the second law of thermodynamics, places a fundamental upper bound on the efficiency of heat engines operating between two heat baths. The Car…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 13 cited

Achieving Carnot efficiency in a finite-power Brownian Carnot cycle with arbitrary temperature difference

Kosuke Miura, Yuki Izumida, Koji Okuda

Achieving the Carnot efficiency at finite power is a challenging problem in heat engines due to the trade-off relation between efficiency and power that holds for general heat engi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 15 cited

Hierarchical Onsager symmetries in adiabatically driven linear irreversible heat engines

Yuki Izumida

In existing linear response theories for adiabatically driven cyclic heat engines, Onsager symmetry is identified only phenomenologically, and a relation between global and local O…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 9 cited

Compatibility of Carnot efficiency with finite power in an underdamped Brownian Carnot cycle in small temperature-difference regime

Kosuke Miura, Yuki Izumida, Koji Okuda

We study the possibility of achieving the Carnot efficiency in a finite-power underdamped Brownian Carnot cycle. Recently, it was reported that the Carnot efficiency is achievable…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 9 cited

Quasi-linear irreversible thermodynamics of a low-temperature-differential kinematic Stirling heat engine

Yuki Izumida

Low-temperature-differential (LTD) Stirling heat engines are able to operate with a small temperature difference between low-temperature heat reservoirs that exist in our daily liv…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 34 cited

Fast forward approach to stochastic heat engine

Katsuhiro Nakamura, Jasur Matrasulov, Yuki Izumida

The fast-forward (FF) scheme proposed by Masuda and Nakamura (\textit{Proc. R. Soc. A} \textbf{466}, 1135 (2010)) in the context of conservative quantum dynamics can reproduce a qu…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 9 cited

Experimental characterization of autonomous heat engine based on minimal dynamical-system model

Shoichi Toyabe, Yuki Izumida

The autonomous heat engine is a model system of autonomous nonequilibrium systems like biological cells, exploiting nonequilibrium flow for operations. As the Carnot engine has ess…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 15 cited

Nonlinear dynamics analysis of a low-temperature-differential kinematic Stirling heat engine

Yuki Izumida

The low-temperature-differential (LTD) Stirling heat engine technology constitutes one of the important sustainable energy technologies. The basic question of how the rotational mo…

quant-ph2017★ 10 cited

Transition probability generating function of a transitionless quantum parametric oscillator

Hiroaki Mishima, Yuki Izumida

The transitionless tracking (TT) algorithm enables the exact tracking of quantum adiabatic dynamics in an arbitrary short time by adding a counterdiabatic Hamiltonian to the origin…