4 papers
Active-Matter Battery
Yun-Qian Lin, Rui-Han Liu, Yu-Han Ma
Harnessing active matter to power functional devices has attracted growing interest. We propose a minimal battery model for storing energy extracted from active matter and derive i…
Carnot Meets Quantum Information: A Thermal Machine Driven by Non-orthogonal State Discrimination
Tan-Ji Zhou, Yun-Qian Lin, Yu-Han Ma +1
While the impossibility of perfectly identifying non-orthogonal states is a cornerstone of quantum information science, they can nevertheless be distinguished with a finite error p…
Finite-Time Thermodynamics of Battery Discharging: Power-Efficiency Trade-Off and Optimization
Rui-Han Liu, Yun-Qian Lin, Yu-Han Ma
Battery discharging is governed by a fundamental trade-off between output power and energy conversion efficiency due to internal dissipation. In this paper, we demonstrate that suc…
Macroscopic Thermodynamic Framework for the Mpemba Effect
Yun-Qian Lin, Z. C. Tu, Yu-Han Ma
The counterintuitive Mpemba effect, wherein a hotter system cools faster, critically lacks a general macroscopic theory. Here, starting from linear irreversible thermodynamics, we…