Speaker
Prof.
Chris van den Broeck
(Hasselt University)
Description
I review some spectacular recent advances in statistical
mechanics, including universal features of efficiency of
machines at maximum power, Brownian refrigerators, the
fluctuation and work theorems, a deeper formulation of the
second law, and the splitting of the second law.
C. Van den Broeck, "Thermodynamic Efficiency at Maximum
Power", Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190602, 1-3 (2005).
B. Cleuren, C. Van den Broeck, and R. Kawai, "Fluctuation
and Dissipation of Work in a Joule experiment", Phys. Rev.
Lett. 96, 050601, 1-4 (2006).
C. Van den Broeck and R. Kawai, "Brownian Refrigerator",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 210601, 1-4 (2006).
R. Kawai, J.M.R. Parrondo, and C. Van den Broeck,
"Dissipation: The Phase-Space Perspective", Phys. Rev. Lett.
98, 080602, 1-4 (2007).
M. van den Broek and C. Van den Broeck, "Chiral Brownian
Heat Pump", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130601, 1-4 (2008).
M. Esposito, K. Lindenberg, and C. Van den Broeck,
"Universality of Efficiency at Maximum Power", Phys. Rev.
Lett. 102, 130602 (2009).
M. Esposito and C. Van den Broeck, "Three Detailed
Fluctuation Theorems", Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090601 (2010).
M. Esposito, R. Kawai, K. Lindenberg, and C. Van den Broeck,
"Efficiency at Maximum Power of Low-Dissipation Carnot
Engines", Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150603 (2010).
