Optimal work in a harmonic trap with bounded stiffness.
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DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.012140
Abstract: We apply Pontryagin's principle to drive rapidly a trapped overdamped Brownian particle in contact with a thermal bath between two equilibrium states corresponding to different trap stiffness κ. We work out the optimal time dependence… read more here.
Keywords: work harmonic; optimal work; stiffness; harmonic trap ... See more keywords