Stochastic heat engines can be built using colloidal particles trapped using optical tweezers.
Here we review recent experimental realizations of microscopic heat engines. We first revisit …

We expand the standard thermodynamic framework of a system coupled to a thermal
reservoir by considering a stream of independently prepared units repeatedly put into …

This article reviews thermodynamic relationships in the brain in an attempt to consolidate
current research in systems neuroscience. The present synthesis supports proposals that …

Information processing typically occurs via the composition of modular units, such as the
universal logic gates found in discrete computation circuits. The benefit of modular …

We introduce a family of Maxwellian Demons for which correlations among information
bearing degrees of freedom can be calculated exactly and in compact analytical form. This …

We propose a physically realizable information-driven device consisting of an enzyme in a
chemical bath, interacting with pairs of molecules prepared in correlated states. These …

Stochastic heat engines are devices that generate work from random thermal motion using a
small number of highly fluctuating degrees of freedom. Proposals for such devices have …

Information engines can use structured environments as a resource to generate work by
randomizing ordered inputs and leveraging the increased Shannon entropy to transfer …

Key to biological success, the requisite variety that confronts an adaptive organism is the set
of detectable, accessible, and controllable states in its environment. We analyze its role in …

This Letter exposes a tight connection between the thermodynamic efficiency of information
processing and predictive inference. A generalized lower bound on dissipation is derived for …