The Sun within: active processes from two-temperature models
Faezeh Khodabandehlou,
Christian Maes
Abstract:We propose an embedding of standard active particle models in terms of two-temperature processes. One temperature refers to an ambient thermal bath, and the other temperature effectively describes "hot spots," i.e., systems with few degrees of freedom showing important population homogenization or even inversion of energy levels as a result of activation. As a result, the effective Carnot efficiency would get much higher than for our standard macroscopic thermal engines, making connection with the recent conun… Show more
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