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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 105, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.034127
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- SERB, Government of India, through MATRICS [MTR/2020/000472]
- Shastri Indo Canadian Institute
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India [09/936(0273)/2019-EMR-I]
- CSIR, India [1061651988]
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We demonstrate a hierarchy in the relative fluctuation of currents for cold, hot, and work terminals in steady-state autonomous absorption refrigerators. This hierarchy leads to a bound on cooling efficiency that is tighter than previously obtained bounds.
For steady-state autonomous absorption refrigerators operating in the linear response regime, we show that there exists a hierarchy between the relative fluctuation of currents for cold, hot, and work terminals. Our proof requires the Onsager reciprocity relation along with the refrigeration condition that sets the direction of the mean currents for each terminal. As a consequence, the universal bounds on the mean cooling power, obtained following the thermodynamic uncertainty relations, follow a hierarchy. Interestingly, within this hierarchy, the tightest bound is given in terms of the work current fluctuation. Furthermore, the relative uncertainty hierarchy introduces a bound on cooling efficiency that is tighter than the bound obtained from the thermodynamic uncertainty relations. Interestingly, all of these bounds saturate in the tight-coupling limit. We test the validity of our results for two paradigmatic absorption refrigerator models: (i) a four-level working fluid and (ii) a two-level working fluid, operating in the weak (additive) and strong (multiplicative) system-bath interaction regimes, respectively.
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