O. Contreras-Vergara, G. Valencia-Ortega, N. Sánchez-Salas, J. I. Jiménez-Aquino
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the coefficient of performance (COP) at maximum figure of merit for a Brownian Carnot-like refrigerator, within the context of the low-dissipation approach. Our proposal is based on the Langevin equation for a Brownian particle bounded to a harmonic potential trap, which can perform Carnot-like cycles at finite time. The theoretical approach is related to the equilibrium ensemble average of which plays the role of a statelike equation, being the Brownian particle position. This statelike equation comes from the macroscopic version of the corresponding Langevin equation for a Brownian particle. We show that under quasistatic conditions the COP has the same expression as the macroscopic Carnot refrigerator, while for irreversible cycles at finite time and under symmetric dissipation the optimal COP is the counterpart of Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency as also obtained for irreversible macroscopic refrigerators.
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Physical Review E (PRE), broad and interdisciplinary in scope, focuses on collective phenomena of many-body systems, with statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics as the central themes of the journal. Physical Review E publishes recent developments in biological and soft matter physics including granular materials, colloids, complex fluids, liquid crystals, and polymers. The journal covers fluid dynamics and plasma physics and includes sections on computational and interdisciplinary physics, for example, complex networks.