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Large deviations in Taylor dispersion
Marcel Kahlen, Andreas Engel, Christian Van den Broeck
We establish a link between the phenomenon of Taylor dispersion and the theory of empirical distributions. Using this connection, we derive, upon applying the theory of large devia…
Universal theory of efficiency fluctuations
Gatien Verley, Tim Willaert, Christian Van den Broeck +1
Using the fluctuation theorem supplemented with geometric arguments, we derive universal features of the (long-time) efficiency fluctuations for thermal and isothermal machines ope…
Descending from infinity: Convergence of tailed distributions
Christian Van den Broeck, Upendra Harbola, Raul Toral +1
We investigate the relaxation of long-tailed distributions under stochastic dynamics that do not support such tails. Linear relaxation is found to be a borderline case in which lon…
Fluctuation symmetry in a two-state Markov model
Tim Willaert, Bart Cleuren, Christian Van den Broeck
We show that the scaled cumulant generating and large deviation function, associated to a two-state Markov process involving two processes, obey a symmetry relation reminiscent of…
The unlikely Carnot efficiency
Gatien Verley, Tim Willaert, Christian Van den Broeck +1
The efficiency of an heat engine is traditionally defined as the ratio of its average output work over its average input heat. Its highest possible value was discovered by Carnot i…