Finite-time thermodynamics of fluctuations in microscopic heat engines
Finite-time thermodynamics of fluctuations in microscopic heat engines
Fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities become non-negligible and play an important role when the system size is small. We develop finite-time thermodynamics of fluctuations in microscopic heat engines whose environmental temperature and mechanical parameter are driven periodically in time. Within the slow-driving regime, this formalism universally holds in a coarse-grained timescale …