2012/01/30 by Christian Van den Broeck, Niraj Kumar, Broeck, Christian Van den +3
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Machine Learning in Materials Science #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech #physics.bio-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.6396
arxiv created 2012/01/30 · openalex publication_date 2012/01/30 · arxiv updated 2012/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We derive upper and lower bounds for the efficiency of an isothermal molecular machine operating at maximum power. The upper bound is reached when the activated state is close to the fueling or reactant state (Eyring-like), while the lower bound is reached when the activated state is close to the product state (Kramers-like).