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Slow is fast: raising barriers to accelerate thermal relaxation
Yubo Wang, Zhiyue Lu
For a reversible system relaxing to equilibrium, the obvious fastest strategy is to lower all kinetic barriers (open all gates). We find that such intuition holds at three levels:…
Geometric approach to nonequilibrium hasty shortcuts
Supraja S. Chittari, Zhiyue Lu
Complex and even non-monotonic responses to external control can be found in many thermodynamic systems. In such systems, non-equilibrium shortcuts can rapidly drive the system fro…
Non-equilibrium Theoretical Framework and Universal Design Principles of Oscillation-Driven Catalysis
Zhongmin Zhang, Zhiyue Lu
At stationary environmental conditions, a catalyst's reaction rates may be restricted by thermodynamic laws, and certain performances can never be achieved (e.g., catalysts can not…
Energy Landscape Design Principle for Optimal Energy Harnessing by Catalytic Molecular Machines
Zhongmin Zhang, Vincent Du, Zhiyue Lu
Under temperature oscillation, cyclic molecular machines such as catalysts and enzymes could harness energy from the oscillatory bath and use it to drive other processes. Using a n…
Theoretical upper bound of multiplexing in stochastic sensory receptors
Asawari Pagare, Sa Hoon Min, Zhiyue Lu
Biological sensory receptors provide excellent examples of microscopic scale information transduction amidst stochastic noise. We argue that stochasticity is not always a hindrance…
Sloppy Gear Mechanism for Coupled Stochastic Transportation: from anti-equilibrium flow to infinite selectivity
Chase Slowey, Zhiyue Lu
Non-equilibrium transportation of particles through a restricted space (such as porous media or narrow channels) significantly differs from free space. With a simple model of two t…
Emergence and Breaking of Duality Symmetry in Generalized Fundamental Thermodynamic Relations
Zhiyue Lu, Hong Qian
Thermodynamics as limiting behaviors of statistics is generalized to arbitrary system with probability {\it a priori} where thermodynamic infinite-size limit is replaced by multipl…
Generalized Boltzmann distributions for systems strongly coupled to large finite bath -- a microcanonical approach
Yu-Chen Cheng, Wenning Wang, Zhiyue Lu +1
The theory of probability shows that, as the fraction , the conditional probability for , given , has a limit law $f_{X_n}(x)e^{-ψ_n(h_δ)x…
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of continuous attractors
Weishun Zhong, Zhiyue Lu, David J Schwab +1
Continuous attractors have been used to understand recent neuroscience experiments where persistent activity patterns encode internal representations of external attributes like he…
Continuous attractor-based clocks are unreliable phase estimators
Weerapat Pittayakanchit, Zhiyue Lu, Justin Chew +2
Statistical estimation theory determines the optimal way of estimating parameters of a fluctuating noisy signal. However, if the estimation is performed on unreliable hardware, a s…
Anomalous cooling and heating - the Mpemba effect and its inverse
Zhiyue Lu, Oren Raz
Under certain conditions, it takes a shorter time to cool a hot system than to cool the same system initiated at a lower temperature. This phenomenon - the "Mpemba Effect" - is wel…