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Information erasure without an energy cost [PDF]

, 2011
Landauer argued that the process of erasing the information stored in a memory device incurs an energy cost in the form of a minimum amount of mechanical work.
Vaccaro, Joan A., Barnett, Stephen M.
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Enhanced Photonic Maxwell's Demon with Correlated Baths [PDF]

Quantum, 2022
Maxwell's Demon is at the heart of the interrelation between quantum information processing and thermodynamics. In this thought experiment, a demon generates a temperature gradient between two thermal baths initially at equilibrium by gaining information
Guilherme L. Zanin, Michael Antesberger, Maxime J. Jacquet, Paulo H. Souto Ribeiro, Lee A. Rozema, Philip Walther   +5 more
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Maxwell's demon-like nonreciprocity by non-Hermitian gyrotropic metasurfaces

Physical Review Research, 2021
We show that Maxwell's demon-like nonreciprocity can be supported in a class of non-Hermitian gyrotropic metasurfaces in the linear regime. The proposed metasurface functions as a transmission-only Maxwell's demon operating at a pair of photon energies ...
Wenyan Wang, Wang Tat Yau, Yanxia Cui, Jin Wang, Kin Hung Fung   +4 more
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Designing autonomous Maxwell's demon via stochastic resetting

Physical Review Research, 2023
Autonomous Maxwell's demon is a new type of information engine proposed by Mandal and Jarzynski [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 11641 (2012)0027-842410.1073/pnas.1204263109], which can produce work by exploiting an information tape.
Ruicheng Bao, Zhiyu Cao, Jiming Zheng, Zhonghuai Hou   +3 more
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Autonomous Dissipative Maxwell’s Demon in a Diamond Spin Qutrit

PRX Quantum, 2022
Engineered dynamical maps combining coherent and dissipative transformations of quantum states with quantum measurements have demonstrated a number of technological applications, and promise to be a crucial tool in quantum thermodynamic processes.
S. Hernández-Gómez, S. Gherardini, N. Staudenmaier, F. Poggiali, M. Campisi, A. Trombettoni, F.S. Cataliotti, P. Cappellaro, N. Fabbri   +8 more
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Eaters of the Lotus: Landauer's Principle and the Return of Maxwell's Demon [PDF]

, 2004
Landauer’s principle is the loosely formulated notion that the erasure of n bits of information must always incur a cost of k ln n in thermodynamic entropy.
Norton, JD, John D. Norton, Norton, John D.   +2 more
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Unravelling The Threads of Enigma: Entropy, Maxwell's Demon, and Communication in 'The Crying of Lot 49 [PDF]

International Journal of Practical and Pedagogical Issues in English Education
Thomas Pynchon is a great postmodernist writer whose The Crying of Lot 49 mixes postmodern elements and modern physics in an ironic way. In The Crying of Lot 49, the concepts of entropy and Maxwell's demon play a significant role in understanding the ...
Shayan Karimifard
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Nonequilibrium phase transitions in feedback-controlled three-dimensional particle dynamics

Physical Review Research, 2023
We consider point particles moving inside spherical urns connected by cylindrical channels whose axes both lie along the horizontal direction. The microscopic dynamics differ from that of standard 3D billiards because of a kind of Maxwell's demon that ...
Emilio N. M. Cirillo, Matteo Colangeli, Martin Kröger, Lamberto Rondoni   +3 more
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A Collision Between Dynamics and Thermodynamics

Entropy, 2004
: Philosophers of science have found the literature surrounding Maxwell's demon deeply problematic. This paper explains why, summarizing various philosophical complaints and adding to them.
Craig Callender
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Critical Behaviors of Asymmetric Granular Maxwell’s Demon Phenomenon [PDF]

, 2022
We theoretically derived the critical behaviors of the asymmetric granular Maxwell’s demon phenomenon by introducing a symmetry-breaking parameter.
Nonaka, Yota, Miyazaki, Syuji
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