Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and optimal cooling of a dilute atomic gas

2019/01/31 by Daniel Mayer, Felix Schmidt, Steve Haupt +5
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Computer science #Entropy (arrow of time) #Entropy production #Materials science #Measure (data warehouse) #Non-equilibrium thermodynamics #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Physics #Statistical physics #Thermal properties of materials #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.quant-gas #cond-mat.stat-mech #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.023245

published as Physical Review Research 2, 023245 (2020)

arxiv created 2020/04/28 · openalex publication_date 2020/05/28 · arxiv updated 2021/02/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

This paper provides a theoretical and experimental approach that allows characterizing and optimizing generic nonequilibrium processes of few-particle systems. The authors present experimental protocols to measure thermodynamic quantities, such as entropy production and thermodynamic length, in an ultra cold few-atom system, and introduce general optimization criteria based on these quantities.

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