Multipartite information flow for multiple Maxwell demons
Statistical Mechanics
2015-03-24 v1
Abstract
The second law of thermodynamics dictates the fundamental limits to the amount of energy and information that can be exchanged between physical systems. In this work, we extend a thermodynamic formalism describing this flow of energy and information developed for a pair of bipartite systems to many multipartite systems. We identify a natural thermodynamic quantity that describes the information exchanged among these systems. We then introduce and discuss a refined version. Our results are illustrated with a model of two, competing Maxwell demons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1501.05549,
title = {Multipartite information flow for multiple Maxwell demons},
author = {Jordan M. Horowitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.05549},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 figures