Parrondo's games and the zipping algorithm
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We study the relation between the discrete--time version of the flashing ratchet known as Parrondo's games and a compression technique used very recently with thermal ratchets for evaluating the transfer of information -- negentropy -- between the Brownian particle and the source of fluctuations. We present some results concerning different versions of Parrondo's games, showing all of them a good qualitative agreement between the gain and the inverse of the entropy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402515,
title = {Parrondo's games and the zipping algorithm},
author = {Pau Amengual and Raul Toral},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402515},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages. 6 figures