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Jin-Fu Chen1,2, C P Sun1,2, Hui Dong2
1Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China.
Abstract:
The thermodynamic length, though providing a lower bound for the excess work required in a finite-time thermodynamic process, is determined by the properties of the equilibrium states reached by the quasistatic process and is thus beyond the direct experimental measurement. We propose an experimental strategy to measure the thermodynamic length of an open classical or quantum system by extrapolating finite-time measurements. The current proposal enables the measurement of the thermodynamic length for a single control parameter without requiring extra effort to find the optimal control scheme, and is illustrated with examples of the quantum harmonic oscillator with tuning frequency and the classical ideal gas with changing volume. Such a strategy shall shed light on the experimental design of the lacking platforms to measure the thermodynamic length.
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