Maxwell's demon—a historical review

A Rex - Entropy, 2017 - mdpi.com
For more than 140 years Maxwell's demon has intrigued, enlightened, mystified, frustrated,
and challenged physicists in unique and interesting ways. Maxwell's original conception …

Enhanced photonic Maxwell's demon with correlated baths

GL Zanin, M Antesberger, MJ Jacquet, PHS Ribeiro… - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Maxwell's Demon is at the heart of the interrelation between quantum information
processing and thermodynamics. In this thought experiment, a demon generates a …

Advantage of probabilistic non-Gaussian operations in the distillation of single mode squeezed vacuum state

C Kumar - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider distillation of squeezing in single mode squeezed vacuum state using three
different probabilistic non-Gaussian operations: photon subtraction (PS), photon addition …

Photon subtraction with a Mach–Zehnder interferometer and its application to entanglement enhancement

S Zhang, S Yang, JT Ma - JOSA B, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Photon subtraction (PS) is an important operation for optic quantum information processing.
Conventional PS is implemented using a single linear beam splitter (BS) and photon …

Nonlinear bosonic Maxwell's demon by coupling to qubits

A Ritboon, R Filip - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The concept of Maxwell's demon, proposed in classical physics as a means to extract work
from a thermodynamics system beyond the constraints set by the second law of …

Demon driven by geometric phase

R Yoshii, H Hayakawa - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
We theoretically study the entropy production and the work extracted from a system
connected to two reservoirs by periodic modulations of the electrochemical potentials of the …

Advantage of Non‐Gaussian Operations in Phase Estimation via Mach–Zehnder Interferometer

M Verma, C Kumar, KK Mishra… - Advanced Quantum …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the benefits of probabilistic non‐Gaussian operations in phase
estimation using difference‐intensity and parity detection‐based Mach–Zehnder …

Verifying detailed fluctuation relations for discrete feedback-controlled quantum dynamics

PA Camati, RM Serra - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
Discrete quantum feedback control consists of a managed dynamics according to the
information acquired by a previous measurement. Energy fluctuations along such dynamics …

Nonlinear bosonic Maxwell's demon

A Ritboon, R Filip - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01005, 2023 - arxiv.org
Maxwell's demon principle of extracting valuable resources through measuring fluctuations
in the system already stimulated modern quantum physics. In contrast to classical physics, a …

Optical Maxwell's demon phase space theory and its efficiency improvement to 90% with local online squeezing

S Zhang - 2021 13th International Conference on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Maxwell's demon is a being with the ability to extract work from information. Recently, an
optical simulator of Maxwell's demon was experimentally demonstrated. Here, we formulate …