Optimal Probabilistic Work Extraction beyond the Free Energy Difference with a Single-Electron Device
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Physical Review Letters, Volume 122, issue 15, pp. 1-6
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We experimentally realize protocols that allow us to extract work beyond the free energy difference from a single-electron transistor at the single thermodynamic trajectory level. With two carefully designed out-of-equilibrium driving cycles featuring kicks of the control parameter, we demonstrate work extraction up to large fractions of kBT or with probabilities substantially greater than 1/2, despite the zero free energy difference over the cycle. Our results are explained in the framework of nonequilibrium fluctuation relations. We thus show that irreversibility can be used as a resource for optimal work extraction even in the absence of feedback from an external operator.Description
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Maillet, O, Erdman, P A, Cavina, V, Bhandari, B, Mannila, E T, Peltonen, J T, Mari, A, Taddei, F, Jarzynski, C, Giovannetti, V & Pekola, J P 2019, 'Optimal Probabilistic Work Extraction beyond the Free Energy Difference with a Single-Electron Device', Physical Review Letters, vol. 122, no. 15, 150604, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.150604