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Driving rapidly while remaining in control: classical shortcuts from Hamiltonian to stochastic dynamics

David Guéry-Odelin
Christopher Jarzynski
  • Fonction : Auteur
Carlos A. Plata
  • Fonction : Auteur
Antonio Prados
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic systems. Remarkably, this approach, relying on stochastic equations of motion, introduces time into the description of thermodynamic processes -- which opens the way to fine control them. As a result, the field of finite-time thermodynamics of mesoscopic systems has blossomed. In this article, after introducing a few concepts of control for isolated mechanical systems evolving according to deterministic equations of motion, we review the different strategies that have been developed to realize finite-time state-to-state transformations in both over and underdamped regimes, by the proper design of time-dependent control parameters/driving. The systems under study are stochastic, epitomized by a Brownian object immersed in a fluid; they thus strongly coupled to their environment playing the role of a reservoir. Interestingly, a few of those methods (inverse engineering, counterdiabatic driving, fast-forward) are directly inspired by their counterpart in quantum control. The review also analyzes the control through reservoir engineering. Besides the reachability of a given target state from a known initial state, the question of the optimal path is discussed. Optimality is here defined with respect to a cost function, a subject intimately related to the field of information thermodynamics and the question of speed limit. Another natural extension discussed deals with the connection between arbitrary states or non-equilibrium steady states. This field of control in stochastic thermodynamics enjoys a wealth of applications, ranging from optimal mesoscopic heat engines to population control in biological systems.

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hal-03662758 , version 1 (09-05-2022)

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David Guéry-Odelin, Christopher Jarzynski, Carlos A. Plata, Antonio Prados, Emmanuel Trizac. Driving rapidly while remaining in control: classical shortcuts from Hamiltonian to stochastic dynamics. Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023, 86 (3), pp.035902. ⟨10.1088/1361-6633/acacad⟩. ⟨hal-03662758⟩
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