• Leaking elastic capacitor as model for active matter 

      Alicki, Robert; Gelbwaser Klimovsky, David; Jenkins Villalobos, Alejandro (2021-05-24)
      We introduce the “leaking elastic capacitor” (LEC) model, a nonconservative dynamical system that combines simple electrical and mechanical degrees of freedom. We show that an LEC connected to an external voltage source ...
    • The problem of engines in statistical physics 

      Alicki, Robert; Gelbwaser Klimovsky, David; Jenkins Villalobos, Alejandro (2021-08-22)
      Engines are open systems that can generate work cyclically at the expense of an external disequilibrium. They are ubiquitous in nature and technology, but the course of mathematical physics over the last 300 years has ...