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We analyze a periodic optimal finite-time two-state information-driven machine that extracts work from a single heat bath exploring imperfect measurements. Two models are considered, a memory-less one that ignores past measurements and an…

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Kinetics of biological motors such as kinesin or dynein is notably influenced by viscoelastic intracellular environment. The characteristic relaxation time of the cytosol is not separable from the colloidal timescale and therefore their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Mateusz Wiśniewski , Jakub Spiechowicz

The understanding of memory effects arising from the interaction between system and environment is a key for engineering quantum thermodynamic devices beyond the standard Markovian limit. We study the performance of measurement-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Obinna Abah , Mauro Paternostro

Understanding noisy information engines is a fundamental problem of non-equilibrium physics, particularly in biomolecular systems agitated by thermal and active fluctuations in the cell. By the generalized second law of thermodynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-01 Govind Paneru , Sandipan Dutta , Takahiro Sagawa , Tsvi Tlusty , Hyuk Kyu Pak

We study the consequences of adopting the memory dependent, non-Markovian, physics with the memory-less over-damped approximation usually employed to investigate Brownian particles. Due to the finite correlation time scale associated with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-05 Eduardo dos S. Nascimento , Welles A. M. Morgado

We describe an experiment on an underdamped mechanical oscillator used as an information engine. The system is equivalent to an inertial Brownian particle confined in a harmonic potential whose center is controlled by a feedback protocol…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-23 Aubin Archambault , Caroline Crauste-Thibierge , Sergio Ciliberto , Ludovic Bellon

We study an information-based mechanism of self-propulsion in noisy environment. An information swimmer maintains directional motion by periodically measuring its velocity and accordingly adjusting its friction coefficient. Assuming that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-18 Chen Huang , Mingnan Ding , Xiangjun Xing

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

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Arnab Saha , Rahul Marathe , A. M. Jayannavar

We have performed an extensive analysis of a single particle stochastic heat engine constructed by manipulating a Brownian particle in a time dependent harmonic potential. The cycle consists of two isothermal steps at different temperatures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-01 Shubhashis Rana , P. S. Pal , Arnab Saha , A. M. Jayannavar

We have experimentally realized an information engine consisting of an optically trapped, heavy bead in water. The device raises the trap center after a favorable "up" thermal fluctuation, thereby increasing the bead's average gravitational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-11 Tushar K. Saha , Joseph N. E. Lucero , Jannik Ehrich , David A. Sivak , John Bechhoefer

From synthetic active devices such as self-propelling Janus colloids to micro-organisms like bacteria, micro-algae, living cells in tissues, active fluctuations are ubiquitous. Thermodynamics of small systems involving thermal as well as…

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We investigate memory effects in the spin-boson model using a recently proposed measure for non-Markovian behavior based on the information exchange between an open system and its environment. Employing the numerical exact multilayer…

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Suspensions of self-propelled objects represent a novel paradigm in colloidal science. In such active baths traditional concepts, such as Brownian motion, fluctuation-dissipation relations, and work extraction from heat reservoirs, must be…

We have built an information engine that can transport a bead in a desired direction by using favorable fluctuations from the thermal bath. However, in its original formulation, the information engine generates a fluctuating velocity and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-09 Tushar K. Saha , John Bechhoefer

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

Non-Markovian dynamics is central to quantum information processing, as memory effects strongly influence coherence preservation, metrology, and communication. In this work, we investigate the role of stochastic system--bath couplings in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Mehboob Rashid , Rayees A Mala , Saima Bashir , Muzaffar Qadir Lone

Quantum information processing relies on how dynamics unfold in open quantum systems. In this work, we study the non-Markovian dynamics in the single mode spin-boson model at strong couplings. In order to apply perturbation theory, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Rayees A Mala , Mehboob Rashid , Muzaffar Qadir Lone

Using an underdamped active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle, we propose two information swimmer models having either external or internal feedback control and perform their numerical simulations. Depending on the velocity that is measured after…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-08 Zhanglin Hou , Ziluo Zhang , Jun Li , Kento Yasuda , Shigeyuki Komura

Feedback traps are tools for trapping and manipulating single charged objects, such as molecules in solution. An alternative to optical tweezers and other single-molecule techniques, they use feedback to counteract the Brownian motion of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-24 Momčilo Gavrilov , John Bechhoefer