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Title: Thermodynamics of a stochastic twin elevator
Authors: Kumar, Niraj
VAN DEN BROECK, Christian 
Esposito, Massimiliano
Lindenberg, Katja
Issue Date: 2011
Publisher: AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 84 (5)
Abstract: We study the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of a single particle with two available energy levels, in contact with a classical (Maxwell-Boltzmann) or quantum (Bose-Einstein) heat bath. The particle can undergo transitions between the levels via thermal activation or deactivation. The energy levels are alternately raised at a given rate regardless of occupation by the particle, maintaining a fixed energy gap equal to e between them. We explicitly calculate the work, heat, and entropy production rates. The efficiency in both the classical and the quantum case goes to a limit between 100 and 50% that depends on the relative rates of particle transitions and level elevation. In the classical problem we explicitly find the large deviation functions for heat, work, and internal energy.
Notes: [Kumar, Niraj; Lindenberg, Katja] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Chem & Biochem, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA. [Kumar, Niraj; Lindenberg, Katja] Univ Calif San Diego, BioCircuits Inst, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA. [Van den Broeck, Christian] Hasselt Univ, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Esposito, Massimiliano] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Ctr Nonlinear Phenomena & Complex Syst, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Keywords: Physics, Fluids & Plasmas; Physics, Mathematical
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/12996
Link to publication/dataset: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1257
ISSN: 1539-3755
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.051134
ISI #: 000297469000009
Category: A1
Type: Journal Contribution
Validations: ecoom 2012
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