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Thermodynamics of a Physical Model Implementing a Maxwell Demon | Phys. Rev. Lett.

    Thermodynamics of a Physical Model Implementing a Maxwell Demon

    Philipp Strasberg1, Gernot Schaller1, Tobias Brandes1, and Massimiliano Esposito2

    • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
    • 2Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040601 – Published 24 January, 2013

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.040601

    Abstract

    We present a physical implementation of a Maxwell demon which consists of a conventional single electron transistor (SET) capacitively coupled to another quantum dot detecting its state. Altogether, the system is described by stochastic thermodynamics. We identify the regime where the energetics of the SET is not affected by the detection, but where its coarse-grained entropy production is shown to contain a new contribution compared to the isolated SET. This additional contribution can be identified as the information flow generated by the “Maxwell demon” feedback in an idealized limit.

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