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Generative diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for sampling high-dimensional distributions, yet they typically rely on white gaussian noise and noise schedules to destroy and reconstruct information. Here, we demonstrate that…

We review recent studies of a colloidal information engine that consists of a bead in water and held by an optical trap. The bead is ratcheted upward without any apparent external work, by taking advantage of favorable thermal fluctuations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Johan du Buisson , David A. Sivak , John Bechhoefer

We study stochastic resetting of a probe particle in a viscoelastic environment where only the probe is reset while the medium retains memory of its past dynamics. Using a minimal model with finite correlation time, we analyze the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-19 Ion Santra , Debankur Das

Brownian Information engine (BIE) harnesses the energy from a fluctuating environment by utilizing the associated information change in the presence of a single heat bath. The engine operates in a space-dependent confining potential and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Rafna Rafeek , Debasish Mondal

Feedback control uses the state information of the system to actuate on it. The information used implies an effective entropy reduction of the controlled system, potentially increasing its performance. How to compute this entropy reduction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-12 Natalia Ruiz-Pino , Daniel Villarubia-Moreno , Antonio Prados , Francisco J. Cao-García

Brownian information engines can extract work from thermal fluctuations by utilizing information. So far, the studies on Brownian information engines consider the system in a thermal bath; however, many processes in nature occur in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-26 Govind Paneru , Sandipan Dutta , Hyuk Kyu Pak

An information engine harnesses energy from a single heat bath, utilising the gathered information. This study explores the best control strategy of a Brownian information engine (BIE), confined in a potential energy surface (PES) of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-26 Rafna Rafeek , Debasish Mondal

We propose to use a correlated noise bath to drive an optically trapped Brownian particle that mimics active biological matter. Thanks to the flexibility and precision of our setup, we are able to control the different parameters that drive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-02 Rémi Goerlich , Luís Barbosa Pires , Giovanni Manfredi , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Cyriaque Genet

The information engine extracts work from a single heat bath using mutual information obtained during the operation cycle. This study investigates the influence of the potential shaping in a Brownian information engine (BIE) in harnessing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Rafna Rafeek , Debasish Mondal

We study the optimal performance of an information engine consisting of an overdamped Brownian bead confined in a controllable, $d$-dimensional harmonic trap and additionally subjected to gravity. The trap's center is updated dynamically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-18 Antonio Patrón Castro , John Bechhoefer , David A. Sivak

Stochastic resetting has recently emerged as an efficient target-searching strategy in various physical and biological systems. The efficiency of this strategy depends on the type of environmental noise, whether it is thermal or telegraphic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-08 Priyo Shankar Pal , Jong-Min Park , Arnab Pal , Hyunggyu Park , Jae Sung Lee

Information engines can use structured environments as a resource to generate work by randomizing ordered inputs and leveraging the increased Shannon entropy to transfer energy from a thermal reservoir to a work reservoir. We give a broadly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 Alexander B. Boyd , Dibyendu Mandal , James P. Crutchfield

Thermodynamics of nanoscale devices is an active area of research. Despite their noisy surrounding they often produce mechanical work (e.g. micro-heat engines), display rectified Brownian motion (e.g. molecular motors). This invokes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Arnab Saha , Rahul Marathe , P. S. Pal , A. M. Jayannavar

A self-propelled artificial microswimmer is often modeled as a ballistic Brownian particle moving with constant speed aligned along one of its axis, but changing direction due to random collisions with the environment. Similarly to thermal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-08 Pulak K. Ghosh , Yunyun Li , Giampiero Marchegiani , Fabio Marchesoni

Thermodynamics establishes that information acquired through measurement can be converted into work, as exemplified by Maxwell's demon and Szilard engines. Most experimental realizations of information engines, however, implicitly assume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 Lokesh Muruga , Felix Ginot , Sarah A. M. Loos , Clemens Bechinger

Real-world systems are shaped by both their complex internal interactions and the changes in their noisy environments. In this work, we study how a shared active bath affects the statistical dependencies between two interacting Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-10 Giorgio Nicoletti , Daniel M. Busiello

This study examines the dynamics of a tracer particle diffusing in a nonequilibrium medium under stochastic resetting. The nonequilibrium state is induced by harmonic coupling between the tracer and bath particles, generating memory effects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-04 Koushik Goswami

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

The emerging field of quantum thermodynamics is beginning to reveal the intriguing role that information can play in quantum thermal engines. Information enters as a resource when considering feedback-controlled thermal machines. While both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Lindsay Bassman Oftelie , Michele Campisi

We study the possibility of taking bosonic systems subject to quadratic Hamiltonians and a noisy thermal environment to non-classical stationary states by feedback loops based on weak measurements and conditioned linear driving. We derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Marco G. Genoni , Stefano Mancini , Alessio Serafini
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