Thermodynamic cost for classical counterdiabatic driving

Motivated by the recent growing interest about the thermodynamic cost of shortcuts to adiabaticity, we consider the cost of driving a classical system by the so-called counterdiabatic driving (CD). To do so, we proceed in three steps: first we review a general definition recently put forward in the literature for the thermodynamic cost of driving a Hamiltonian system; then we provide a new complementary definition of cost, which is of particular relevance for cases where the average excess work vanishes; finally, we apply our general framework to the case of CD. Interestingly, we find that in such a case our results are the exact classical counterparts of those reported by Funo et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100602 (2017)]. In particular we show that a universal trade-off between speed and cost for CD also exists in the classical case. To illustrate our points we consider the example of a time-dependent harmonic oscillator subject to different strategies of adiabatic control.

Figure 1

Instantaneous excess of work fluctuations (a) and thermodynamic cost (b) for different durations $\tau$ of the protocol (33) for a time-dependent harmonic oscillator.