2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
A Single-granule Stirling Heat Engine
Niloyendu Roy, Pragya Arora, A K Sood +1
Single-particle heat engines at atomic and colloidal scales obey the universal thermodynamic bounds on work and efficiency. Here, we translate these principles to the macroscale by…
cond-mat.soft2025
Bulk condensation by an active interface
Raushan Kant, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Harsh Soni +2
We present experiments, supported by mechanically detailed simulations, establishing bulk vapor-liquid condensation of a hard-bead fluid by a tiny population of orientable motile g…