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Energy Requirement of Control: Comments on Szilard's Engine and Maxwell's Demon [PDF]

, 2012
In mathematical physical analyses of Szilard's engine and Maxwell's demon, a general assumption (explicit or implicit) is that one can neglect the energy needed for relocating the piston in Szilard's engine and for driving the trap door in Maxwell's ...
Brillouin L., Brillouin L., C. G. Granqvist, Ferry D., L. B. Kish, Leff H. S., Maxwell J. C., Norton J. D.   +7 more
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All Shook Up: Fluctuations, Maxwell’s Demon and the Thermodynamics of Computation

Entropy, 2013
The most successful exorcism of Maxwell’s demon is Smoluchowski’s 1912 observation that thermal fluctuations would likely disrupt the operation of any molecular-scale demonic machine.
John D. Norton
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Artificially intelligent Maxwell’s demon for optimal control of open quantum systems [PDF]

Quantum Science and Technology
Feedback control of open quantum systems is of fundamental importance for practical applications in various contexts, ranging from quantum computation to quantum error correction and quantum metrology.
P. A. Erdman, Robert Czupryniak, Bibek Bhandari, Andrew N. Jordan, Frank No'e, J. Eisert, Giacomo Guarnieri   +6 more
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Quantum Thermodynamic Cycles and quantum heat engines [PDF]

, 2006
In order to describe quantum heat engines, here we systematically study isothermal and isochoric processes for quantum thermodynamic cycles. Based on these results the quantum versions of both the Carnot heat engine and the Otto heat engine are defined ...
C. H. Bennett, C. Kittle, C. P. Sun, D. V. Schroeder, E. Schrodinger, Franco Nori, H. Callen, H. T. Quan, M. B. Plenio, M. O. Scully, M. Orszag, R. Landauer, U. Weiss, Y. Rostovtsev, Yu-xi Liu, Z. E. Sariyanni   +15 more
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The Demon in a Vacuum Tube

Entropy, 2013
In the present paper, several issues concerning the second law of thermodynamics, Maxwell’s demon and Landauer’s principle are dealt with. I argue that if the demon and the system on which it operates without dissipation of external energy are made of ...
Germano D'Abramo
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Alternative experimental ways to access entropy production

Physical Review Research, 2021
We theoretically derive and experimentally compare several different ways to access entropy production in a quantum process under feedback control. We focus on a bipartite quantum system realizing an autonomous Maxwell's demon scheme reported by Najera ...
Zheng Tan, Patrice A. Camati, Guillaume Cœuret Cauquil, Alexia Auffèves, Igor Dotsenko   +4 more
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Conditioning, Correlation and Entropy Generation in Maxwell’s Demon

Entropy, 2013
Maxwell’s Demon conspires to use information about the state of a confined molecule in a Szilard engine (randomly frozen into a state subspace by his own actions) to derive work from a single-temperature heat bath.
Neal G. Anderson
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Experimental Rectification of Entropy Production by Maxwell's Demon in a Quantum System. [PDF]

Physical Review Letters, 2016
Maxwell's demon explores the role of information in physical processes. Employing information about microscopic degrees of freedom, this "intelligent observer" is capable of compensating entropy production (or extracting work), apparently challenging the
Patrice A. Camati, J. P. S. Peterson, T. B. Batalhão, Kaonan Micadei, A. M. Souza, R. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, R. Serra   +7 more
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Dynamics of osmosis in a porous medium [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2014
We derive from kinetic theory, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics the minimal continuum-level equations governing the flow of a binary, non-electrolytic mixture in an isotropic porous medium with osmotic effects.
Silvana S. S. Cardoso, Julyan H. E. Cartwright   +1 more
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Demon-like Algorithmic Quantum Cooling and its Realization with Quantum Optics [PDF]

, 2012
The simulation of low-temperature properties of many-body systems remains one of the major challenges in theoretical and experimental quantum information science.
A Aspuru-Guzik, A Lupascu, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, B Kraus, BP Lanyon, Chuan-Feng Li, D Aharonov, D Poulin, DP DiVincenzo, E Farhi, F Verstraete, GA Álvarez, Guang-Can Guo, H Weimer, I Buluta, I Kassal, I Kassal, J Baugh, J Casanova, J Zhang, Jin-Shi Xu, JT Barreiro, LJ Schulman, M-H Yung, Man-Hong Yung, PO Boykin, RP Feynman, S Lloyd, S Takahashi, S Toyabe, Sergio Boixo, SP Jordan, T-C Wei, W-B Gao, X-Q Zhou, Xiao-Ye Xu, Y Elias, Zheng-Wei Zhou   +37 more
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