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Information is central to thermodynamics, providing the grounds to the formulation of the theory in powerful abstract statistical terms. One must not forget, however, that, as put by Landauer, {\it information is physical}. This means that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 T. Croucher , J. Wright , A. R. R. Carvalho , S. M. Barnett , J. A. Vaccaro

For periodically driven systems, we derive a family of inequalities that relate entropy production with experimentally accessible data for the mean, its dependence on driving frequency, and the variance of a large class of observables. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-25 Timur Koyuk , Udo Seifert

Motivated by the recent proposed models of the information engine [D. Mandal and C. Jarzynski, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 109, 11641 (2012)] and the information refrigerator [D. Mandal, H. T. Quan, and C. Jarzynski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030602…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-30 Yuansheng Cao , Zongping Gong , H. T. Quan

We investigate thermodynamics of feedback processes driven by measurement. Regarding system and memory device as a composite system, mutual information as a measure of correlation between the two constituents contributes to the entropy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-12 Chulan Kwon

The excess work required to drive a stochastic system out of thermodynamic equilibrium through a time-dependent external perturbation is directly related to the amount of entropy produced during the driving process, allowing excess work and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-15 Steven J Large , Jannik Ehrich , David A Sivak

The study of feedback control inspired by Maxwell's demon is central to the understanding of the relationship between thermodynamics and information. In this paper, we establish fundamental lower limits on the work costs of system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Kaiyuan Ji , Gilad Gour , Mark M. Wilde

Information engines, sometimes referred to as Maxwell Demon engines, utilize information obtained through measurement to control the conversion of energy into useful work. Discussions around such devices often assume the measurement step to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Henning Kirchberg , Abraham Nitzan

Molecular motors fulfill critical functions within all living beings. Understanding their underlying working principles is therefore of great interest. Here we develop a simple model inspired by the two-component biomolecular motor Fo-F1…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Mathis Grelier , David A. Sivak , Jannik Ehrich

Second law of thermodynamics can be apparently violated for systems whose dynamics depends on acquired information by measurement. However, when one consider measurement and erasure process together along with the system it saves the second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-08 Shubhashis Rana , A. M. Jayannavar

We analyze the thermodynamic cost of a logically reversible Brownian Turing machine operating in the first-passage time protocol based on the stochastic thermodynamics of resetting. In this framework, the thermodynamic cost of computation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-01 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Dimitry Golubev , Ferdinand Peper

In this work we present results about the rate of (relative) information loss induced by passing a real-valued, stationary stochastic process through a memoryless system. We show that for a special class of systems the information loss rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Bernhard C. Geiger , Gernot Kubin

Biological sensory systems react to changes in their surroundings. They are characterized by fast response and slow adaptation to varying environmental cues. Insofar as sensory adaptive systems map environmental changes to changes of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-15 Pablo Sartori , Léo Granger , Chiu Fan Lee , Jordan M. Horowitz

In many real-world situations, there are constraints on the ways in which a physical system can be manipulated. We investigate the entropy production (EP) and extractable work involved in bringing a system from some initial distribution $p$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-22 Artemy Kolchinsky , David H. Wolpert

Systems that are driven by a randomly timed, external protocol can seemingly violate the second law of thermodynamics. We show that this thermodynamic paradox is resolved if the outcome of the random time is stored in a memory device.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Izaak Neri

Thermodynamics is based on the notions of energy and entropy. While energy is the elementary quantity governing physical dynamics, entropy is the fundamental concept in information theory. In this work, starting from first principles, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Bernhard Altaner

A Brownian information machine extracts work from a heat bath through a feedback process that exploits the information acquired in a measurement. For the paradigmatic case of a particle trapped in a harmonic potential, we determine how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-09 Michael Bauer , David Abreu , Udo Seifert

Microscopic biological systems operate far from equilibrium, are subject to strong fluctuations, and are composed of many coupled components with interactions varying in nature and strength. Researchers are actively investigating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-25 Emma Lathouwers , David A. Sivak

We obtain generalizations of the Kelvin-Planck, Clausius, and Carnot statements of the second law of thermodynamics, for situations involving information processing. To this end, we consider an information reservoir (representing, e.g. a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-21 Sebastian Deffner , Christopher Jarzynski

In this study, we investigate the crucial role of measurement time ($t_m$), information gain and energy consumption in information engines (IEs) utilizing a von-Neumann measurement model. These important measurement parameters allow us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Henning Kirchberg , Abraham Nitzan

The cost of information processing in physical systems calls for a trade-off between performance and energetic expenditure. Here we formulate and study a computation-dissipation bottleneck in mesoscopic systems used as input-output devices.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Alessandro Ingrosso , Emanuele Panizon