- Letter
Speed limit, dissipation bound, and dissipation-time trade-off in thermal relaxation processes
Phys. Rev. E 108, L052103 – Published 6 November, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.L052103
Abstract
We investigate bounds on speed, nonadiabatic entropy production, and the trade-off relation between them for classical stochastic processes with time-independent transition rates. Our results show that the time required to evolve from an initial to a desired target state is bounded from below by the information-theoretical -Rényi divergence between these states, divided by the total rate. Furthermore, we conjecture and provide extensive numerical evidence for an information-theoretical bound on the nonadiabatic entropy production and a dissipation-time trade-off relation that outperforms previous bounds in some cases..