Energy and information flows in autonomous systems

J Ehrich, DA Sivak - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Multi-component molecular machines are ubiquitous in biology. We review recent progress
on describing their thermodynamic properties using autonomous bipartite Markovian …

Macroscopic stochastic thermodynamics

G Falasco, M Esposito - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12406, 2023 - arxiv.org
Starting at the mesoscopic level with a general formulation of stochastic thermodynamics in
terms of Markov jump processes, we identify the scaling conditions that ensure the …

All-thermal reversal of heat currents using qutrits

IA Picatoste, R Sánchez - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Few-level systems coupled to thermal baths provide useful models for quantum
thermodynamics and to understand the role of heat currents in quantum information settings …

Harnessing Maxwell's demon to establish a macroscale concentration gradient

J Pruchyathamkorn, BNT Nguyen, AB Grommet… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Maxwell's demon describes a thought experiment in which a 'demon'regulates the flow of
particles between two adjoining spaces, establishing a potential gradient without appearing …

Information arbitrage in bipartite heat engines

MP Leighton, J Ehrich, DA Sivak - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Heat engines and information engines have each historically served as motivating examples
for the development of thermodynamics. While these two types of systems are typically …

Information flows in macroscopic Maxwell's demons

N Freitas, M Esposito - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
A CMOS-based implementation of an autonomous Maxwell's demon was recently proposed
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120602 (2022) 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 129.120602] to …

Thermodynamically optimal information gain in finite-time measurement

R Nagase, T Sagawa - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The tradeoff relation between speed and cost is a central issue in designing fast and efficient
information processing devices. We derive an achievable bound on thermodynamic cost for …

A chemical reaction network implementation of a Maxwell demon

M Bilancioni, M Esposito, N Freitas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We study an autonomous model of a Maxwell demon that works by rectifying thermal
fluctuations of chemical reactions. It constitutes the chemical analog of a recently studied …

Experimental demonstration of a Maxwell's demon quantum battery in a superconducting noisy intermediate-scale quantum processor

J Yu, S Wang, K Liu, C Zha, Y Wu, F Chen, Y Ye, S Li… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Entering the era of post-quantum supremacy has given one the ability to precisely control
noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors with multiqubits and extract valuable …

Inferring general links between energetics and information with unknown environment

J Liu, J Lu, C Wang, JH Jiang - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Identifying general links between energetics and information in realistic open quantum
systems is a long-standing problem in quantum thermodynamics and quantum information …