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most citedActive particles in moving traps: minimum work protocols and information efficiency of work extraction

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9 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Equivalence classes of finite-time transitions in optimal control and non-equilibrium relaxation

Jan Meibohm, Samuel Monter, Clemens Bechinger +1

We present a theory for the optimal control of stochastic systems in structured environments, represented by penalty terms in the cost functional. We show that such control problem…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Optimal-work feedback on particles with activity --- gliding on active fluctuations using positional information

Lars Torbjørn Stutzer, Sarah A. M. Loos

We study the minimum-work feedback control of particles subject to active fluctuations. Considering an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle confined by a moving harmonic trap, we der…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Quo vadis, stochastic thermodynamics?

Jan Korbel, Artemy Kolchinsky, Sarah A. M. Loos +4

Stochastic thermodynamics is a framework for describing non-equilibrium processes at the level of fluctuating trajectories, where the state of a system evolves as a stochastic time…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Finite-time transitions in optimal control and non-equilibrium relaxation

Jan Meibohm, Samuel Monter, Sarah A. M. Loos +1

We theoretically and experimentally study finite-time optimal control of a colloidal particle steered through a spatially inhomogeneous environment, modeled by a position-dependent…

cond-mat.soft2026

Energy-Efficient Control of Interacting Microscopic Systems: When Longer Paths Save Energy

Samuel Monter, Lars T. Stutzer, Sarah A. M. Loos +1

We experimentally and theoretically study the thermodynamically optimal control of interacting multiple-particle systems, focusing on collections of colloidal particles individuall…

cond-mat.soft2026

Extracting work from hidden degrees of freedom

Lokesh Muruga, Felix Ginot, Sarah A. M. Loos +1

Thermodynamics establishes that information acquired through measurement can be converted into work, as exemplified by Maxwell's demon and Szilard engines. Most experimental realiz…