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Optimal Control of Periodic Nonequilibrium Mechanochemical Systems via Automatic Differentiation
W. Callum Wareham, David A. Sivak
Biological molecular machines are mesoscopic systems that act repeatedly and periodically to perform important cellular tasks while contending with strong fluctuations and operatin…
Thermodynamic geometry of friction on graphs: Resistance, commute times, and optimal transport
Jordan R Sawchuk, David A Sivak
We demonstrate that the thermodynamic friction metric governing dissipation in slowly driven continuous-time Markov chains is equivalent to the commute-time embedding and the resis…
Effects of symmetry on coupled rotary molecular motors
Sara Iranbakhsh, David A. Sivak
As engineering advances toward the nanoscale, understanding design principles for molecular motors becomes increasingly valuable. Many molecular motors consist of coupled component…
Global thermodynamic manifold for conservative control of stochastic systems
Jordan R. Sawchuk, David A. Sivak
Optimal control of stochastic systems plays a central role in nonequilibrium physics, with applications in the study of biological molecular motors and the design of single-molecul…
Flow of Energy and Information in Molecular Machines
Matthew P. Leighton, David A. Sivak
Molecular machines transduce free energy between different forms throughout all living organisms. While truly machines in their own right, unlike their macroscopic counterparts mol…
Performance limits of information engines
Johan du Buisson, David A. Sivak, John Bechhoefer
We review recent studies of a colloidal information engine that consists of a bead in water and held by an optical trap. The bead is ratcheted upward without any apparent external…