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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…