Optimization of Stochastic Heat Engines in the Underdamped Limit

• Main Author: Zöller, Nikolas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Spektrum, 2017.
• Series: BestMasters
• Subjects: Physics.; Probabilities.; Atoms.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.

Nikolas Zöller examines the working principles and the underlying theoretical foundations of a microscopic heat engine. In particular, he investigates the system’s stochastic dynamics in the underdamped regime which has hardly been studied in the past, but will be experimentally feasible in the near...

Table of Contents:

• Stochastic Dynamics
• Stochastic Heat Engines in the Overdamped and Underdamped Regime
• Experimental Realization of a Stochastic Heat Engine
• Entropy Production in Inhomogeneous Thermal Environments.