Three detailed fluctuation theorems (2009)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Broeck, Christian Van Den
The total entropy production of a trajectory can be split into an adiabatic and a non-adiabatic contribution, deriving respectively from the breaking of detailed balance via nonequilibrium boundary...
On the relation between event-based and time-based current statistics (2009)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Lindenberg, Katja, Sokolov, Igor M.
Current statistics can be calculated in various ways. Event-based approaches use the statistics of the number of events occuring during a given time. Time-based approaches use the statistics of the...
Finite time thermodynamics for a single level quantum dot (2009)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Kawai, Ryoichi, Lindenberg, Katja, Broeck, Christian Van Den
We investigate the finite time thermodynamics of a single-level fermion system interacting with a thermal reservoir through a tunneling junction. The optimal protocol to extract the maximum work from...
Pulse propagation in decorated granular chains: An analytical approach (2009)
Harbola, Upendra, Rosas, Alexandre, Romero, Aldo H., Esposito, Massimiliano, Lindenberg, Katja
We study pulse propagation in one-dimensional chains of spherical granules decorated with small grains placed between large granules. The effect of the small granules can be captured by replacing the...
Entropy production as correlation between system and reservoir (2009)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Lindenberg, Katja, Broeck, Christian Van Den
We derive an exact (classical and quantum) expression for the entropy production of a finite system placed in contact with one or several finite reservoirs each of which is initially described by a...
Planets of young stars : The TLS-Tautenburg radial velocity survey (2009)
The discovery and characterization of planets of young stars represents an important goal as it will allow to put much stronger observational constraints on the current theories of planet formation...
Reaching optimal efficiencies using nano-sized photo-electric devices (2009)
Rutten, Bob, Esposito, Massimiliano, Cleuren, Bart
We study the thermodynamic efficiency of a nano-sized photo-electric device and show that at maximum power output, the efficiency is bounded from above by a result closely related to the...
Extracting chemical energy by growing disorder: Efficiency at maximum power (2009)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Lindenberg, Katja, Broeck, Christian Van Den
We consider the efficiency of chemical energy extraction from the environment by the growth of a copolymer made of two constituent units in the entropy-driven regime. We show that the thermodynamic...
Pulse propagation in tapered granular chains: An analytic study (2009)
Harbola, Upendra, Rosas, Alexandre, Esposito, Massimiliano, Lindenberg, Katja
We study pulse propagation in one-dimensional tapered chains of spherical granules. Analytic results for the pulse velocity and other pulse features are obtained using a binary collision...
Universality of efficiency at maximum power (2009)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Lindenberg, Katja, Broeck, Christian Van Den
We investigate the efficiency of power generation by thermo-chemical engines. For strong coupling between the particle and heat flows and in the presence of a left-right symmetry in the system, we...
Transport in molecular states language: Generalized quantum master equation approach (2008)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Galperin, Michael
A simple scheme capable of treating transport in molecular junctions in the language of many-body states is presented. An ansatz in Liouville space similar to generalized Kadanoff-Baym approximation...
Nonequilibrium fluctuations, fluctuation theorems, and counting statistics in quantum systems (2008)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Harbola, Upendra, Mukamel, Shaul
Fluctuation theorems (FTs), which describe some universal properties of nonequilibrium fluctuations, are examined from a quantum perspective and derived by introducing a two-point measurement on the...
Thermoelectric efficiency at maximum power in a quantum dot (2008)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Lindenberg, Katja, Broeck, Christian Van Den
We identify the operational conditions for maximum power of a nanothermoelectric engine consisting of a single quantum level embedded between two leads at different temperatures and chemical...
Single-electron counting spectroscopy: simulation study of porphyrin in a molecular junction (2008)
Welack, Sven, Maddox, Jeremy B., Esposito, Massimiliano, Harbola, Upendra, Mukamel, Shaul
Electron counting of a single porphyrin molecule between two electrodes shows a crossover from sub- to super-Poissonian statistics as the bias voltage is scanned. This is attributed to the...
Continuous time random walk for open systems: Fluctuation theorems and counting statistics (2008)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Lindenberg, Katja
We consider continuous time random walks (CTRW) for open systems that exchange energy and matter with multiple reservoirs. Each waiting time distribution (WTD) for times between steps is...
Welack, Sven, Esposito, Massimiliano, Harbola, Upendra, Mukamel, Shaul
We investigate the effect of quantum interferences and Coulomb interaction on the counting statistics of electrons crossing a double quantum dot in a parallel geometry using a generating function...
Esposito, Massimiliano, Harbola, Upendra, Mukamel, Shaul
The total entropy production generated by the dynamics of an externally driven systems exchanging energy and matter with multiple reservoirs and described by a master equation is expressed as the sum...
Fluctuation theorem for counting-statistics in electron transport through quantum junctions (2007)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Harbola, Upendra, Mukamel, Shaul
We demonstrate that the probability distribution of the net number of electrons passing through a quantum system in a junction obeys a steady-state fluctuation theorem (FT) which can be tested...
Quantum master equation for the microcanonical ensemble (2006)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Gaspard, Pierre
By using projection superoperators, we present a new derivation of the quantum master equation first obtained by the Authors in Phys. Rev. E {\bf 68}, 066112 (2003). We show that this equation...
Quantum master equation for electron transport through quantum dots and single molecules (2006)
Harbola, Upendra, Esposito, Massimiliano, Mukamel, Shaul
A quantum master equation (QME) is derived for the many-body density matrix of an open current-carrying system weakly coupled to two metal leads. The dynamics and the steady-state properties of the...
Fluctuation theorems for quantum master equations (2006)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Mukamel, Shaul
A quantum fluctuation theorem for a driven quantum subsystem interacting with its environment is derived based solely on the assumption that its reduced density matrix obeys a closed evolution...
Overdamping by weakly coupled environments (2005)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Haake, Fritz
A quantum system weakly interacting with a fast environment usually undergoes a relaxation with complex frequencies whose imaginary parts are damping rates quadratic in the coupling to the...
Exactly solvable model of quantum diffusion (2005)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Gaspard, Pierre
We study the transport property of diffusion in a finite translationally invariant quantum subsystem described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian with a single energy band and interacting with its...
Kinetic theory for quantum nanosystems (2004)
In this thesis, we investigate the emergence of kinetic processes in finite quantum systems. We first generalize the Redfield theory to describe the dynamics of a small quantum system weakly...
Kinetic theory for quantum nanosystems (2004)
In this thesis, we investigate the emergence of kinetic processes in finite quantum systems. We first generalize the Redfield theory to describe the dynamics of a small quantum system weakly...
Kinetic theory for quantum nanosystems (2004)
In this thesis, we investigate the emergence of kinetic processes in finite quantum systems. We first generalize the Redfield theory to describe the dynamics of a small quantum system weakly...
Kinetic theory for quantum nanosystems (2004)
In this thesis, we investigate the emergence of kinetic processes in finite quantum systems. We first generalize the Redfield theory to describe the dynamics of a small quantum system weakly...
Kinetic theory for quantum nanosystems (2004)
In this thesis, we investigate the emergence of kinetic processes in finite quantum systems. We first generalize the Redfield theory to describe the dynamics of a small quantum system weakly...
Spin relaxation in a complex environment (2003)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Gaspard, Pierre
We report the study of a model of a two-level system interacting in a non-diagonal way with a complex environment described by Gaussian orthogonal random matrices (GORM). The effect of the...
Quantum master equation for a system influencing its environment (letter version) (2003)
Esposito, Massimiliano, Gaspard, Pierre
We derive a new perturbative quantum master equation for the reduced density matrix of a system interacting with an environment (with a dense spectrum of energy levels). The total system energy...
Il mercato europeo dei prodotti ittici (2000)
Indice: 1. Fattori guida. La situazione dell'offerta. L'alimentazione salutare. I cambiamenti demografici e sociali. Il consumatore sempre piu' esigente. 2. La produzione ittica. I principali...
Analisi desk della filiera pesca in Francia (2000)
Indice: La filiera dei prodotti del mare. Dalla produzione al consumo. Il prodotto fresco sbarcato alle criees nel 1999. Produzione totale della pesca e della acquacoltura nel 1998. Il commercio...
Analisi desk della filiera pesca in Germania (2000)
Indice: Struttura e caratteristiche dell'industria della pesca. Consumi e mercato. Outlook. La distribuzione.
Analisi desk della filiera pesca in Italia (2000)
Indice: Introduzione. La produzione. Tendenze del mercato. La distribuzione
Analisi desk della filiera pesca in Spagna (2000)
Indice: La produzione. Le tendenze del mercato. La distribuzione
I consumi di prodotti ittici delle famiglie residenti in Francia (2000)
Indice: Analisi generale. Stili d'acquisto / Profilo dei consumatori in Francia
I consumi di prodotti ittici delle famiglie residenti in Germania (2000)
Indice: Analisi generale. Stili d'acquisto / Profilo dei consumatori in Germania
I consumi di prodotti ittici delle famiglie residenti in Italia (2000)
Indice: Analisi generale. Stili d'acquisto / Profilo dei consumatori in Italia
I consumi di prodotti ittici delle famiglie residenti in Spagna (2000)
Indice: Analisi generale. Stili d'acquisto / Profilo dei consumatori in Spagna
Parente, Roberto, Esposito, Massimiliano
Indice: Dati di sintesi. La storia, l'organizzazione e le scelte startegiche del gruppo. Fattori di successo ed elementi del vantaggio competitivo. La gestione delle risorse umane