Feynman-Smoluchowski engine at high temperatures and the role of constraints

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AACFBAMaRDI QIDQ3303288zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Varinder Singh, Ramandeep S. Johal

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03856

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35)

Abstract: Feynman's ratchet and pawl is a paradigmatic model for energy conversion using thermal fluctuations in the mesoscopic regime. Here, we optimize the power output of the ratchet as a heat engine in the high temperatures limit, and derive the universality of efficiency at maximum power up to second order, using a non-linear approximation. On the other hand, the linear model may be optimized by constraining the internal energy scales in different ways. It is shown that simple constraints lead to well-known expressions of thermal efficiency in finite-time thermodynamics. Thereby, the constrained ratchet, in the linear regime, has been mapped to an effective finite-time thermodynamic model.

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