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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 32: Focus Session: Physics of Fluctuating Paths (joint session DY/CPP)
DY 32.12: Vortrag
Mittwoch, 29. März 2023, 18:00–18:15, ZEU 160
Optimality of non-conservative driving in discrete systems — •Jonas Fritz and Udo Seifert — II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
A fundamental problem in stochastic thermodynamics is that of optimal driving. The goal is to drive a system from some specified initial state to a specified final state, while minimizing entropy production (or work performed) along the trajectory. As shown recently [1], the optimal protocol in a cyclical Markov network has a non-conservative force, i.e. non-zero cycle affinity, which is in contrast to continuous systems. However, the reduction in entropy production from such a non-conservative force has been numerically found to be at most on the order of 10−2 for the case of the three state cycle. We investigate why this is the case, by systematically varying step size and initial conditions numerically for the simple case of the three state cycle. Further, we try to maximize the improvement in entropy production through the non-conservative force. By increasing the number of states in the cycle, we find a possible improvement which is an order of magnitude larger than the previously known one. We attempt to find a lower bound for the possible improvement through non-conservative driving, by analyzing the scaling behavior of the underlying quantities.
[1] Benedikt Remlein and Udo Seifert, Phys. Rev. E 103, L050105