Thermodynamic uncertainty relations in the presence of non-linear friction and memory

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Main Authors: Plati, A., Puglisi, A., Sarracino, A.
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Published: 2023
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author Plati, A.
Puglisi, A.
Sarracino, A.
author_facet Plati, A.
Puglisi, A.
Sarracino, A.
contents A new Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation (TUR) is derived for systems described by linearly coupled Langevin equations in the presence of non-linear frictional forces. In our scheme, the main variable represents the velocity of a particle, while the other coupled variables describe memory effects which may arise from strongly correlated degrees of freedom with several time-scales and, in general, are associated with thermal baths at different temperatures. The new TUR gives a lower bound for the mean-squared displacement of the position of the particle, including its asymptotic diffusion coefficient. This bound, in several examples worked out here, appears to be a good analytical estimate of the real diffusion coefficient. The new TUR can be also applied in the absence of any external force (with or without thermal equilibrium between the baths), a case which usually goes beyond the scope of original TURs. We show applications to non-linear frictional models with memory, such as the Coulomb and the Prantdtl-Tomlinson models, usually representative of friction at the nano-scale and within atomic-force microscopy experiments.
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spellingShingle Thermodynamic uncertainty relations in the presence of non-linear friction and memory
Plati, A.
Puglisi, A.
Sarracino, A.
Statistical Mechanics
Soft Condensed Matter
A new Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation (TUR) is derived for systems described by linearly coupled Langevin equations in the presence of non-linear frictional forces. In our scheme, the main variable represents the velocity of a particle, while the other coupled variables describe memory effects which may arise from strongly correlated degrees of freedom with several time-scales and, in general, are associated with thermal baths at different temperatures. The new TUR gives a lower bound for the mean-squared displacement of the position of the particle, including its asymptotic diffusion coefficient. This bound, in several examples worked out here, appears to be a good analytical estimate of the real diffusion coefficient. The new TUR can be also applied in the absence of any external force (with or without thermal equilibrium between the baths), a case which usually goes beyond the scope of original TURs. We show applications to non-linear frictional models with memory, such as the Coulomb and the Prantdtl-Tomlinson models, usually representative of friction at the nano-scale and within atomic-force microscopy experiments.
title Thermodynamic uncertainty relations in the presence of non-linear friction and memory
topic Statistical Mechanics
Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15243