Charging assisted by thermalization
Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Felipe Barra, Alberto Imparato
Abstract
The authors use a system coupled to a thermal bath as a battery charging setup, by using the fact that the equilibrium state of a system strongly coupled to a bath is not a Gibbs state and can thus store extractable work after being decoupled from the bath.
Topics & Concepts
ThermalisationWork (physics)Thermal equilibriumThermodynamic equilibriumThermalState (computer science)PhysicsThermodynamicsChemistryNon-equilibrium thermodynamicsStatistical physicsBattery (electricity)Materials scienceAtomic physicsAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanicsstochastic dynamics and bifurcationControl and Stability of Dynamical Systems