ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Brownian particles in nonequilibrium baths
The power of thermodynamics comes at the expense of certain assumptions and idealizations. An important premise is the concept of a thermal bath which is in contact with the examined system. Typically, such baths are idealized as an infinite reservoir of heat that remains in equilibrium regardless of whether the system in contact is in equilibrium or not. Such description, however, is only valid when the bath relaxation time is much faster than typical time scales of the system. Otherwise, a driven system excites the bath out of equilibrium and will interact with nonequilibrium fluctuations. Recent experiments using colloidal particles within viscoelastic baths, whose relaxation times are…
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