Experimental demonstration of information-to-energy conversion and validation of the generalized Jarzynski equality

By Shoichi Toyabe, T. Sagawa, Masahito Ueda, E. Muneyuki, Masaki Sano. 2010

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Feedback mechanisms such as the ‘demon’ in Maxwell’s well-known thought experiment can, in principle, enable the transformation of information into energy, without violating the second law of thermodynamics. Such information-to-energy conversion by feedback control has now been demonstrated experimentally.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Experiments in Stochastic Thermodynamics: Short History and Perspectives (2017, methodology): “For example, a Szilard engine was realized in 2010 [143] by using a single microscopic Brownian particle in a fluid and confined to a spiral-staircase-like potential shown in Fig.”
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Universal features in the energetics of symmetry breaking (2013, methodology): “The aim of this paper is to check experimentally equations (2) and (4), which have important implications in the thermodynamics of information processing and the foundations of statistical mechanics.”
Structural complexity of minerals: information storage and processing in the mineral world (2013, methodology): “The information-to-energy conversion had been a topic of numerous theoretical and experimental studies (Maruyama et al., 2009; Toyabe et al., 2010; Bérut et al., 2012).”
Quantum thermodynamics (2015, background): “3, intervening in the statistical dynamics of a system was investigated [73] with a dimeric polystyrene bead suspended in a fluid and undergoing rotational Brownian motion, see Fig.”
Realization of a micrometre-sized stochastic heat engine (2011, background): “Also, several types of Brownian motor have been discussed that are able to extract useful work by rectification of thermal nois”
Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics (2012, methodology): “Asimplified,one-mole-culeengineintroducedlater 9 has been recently realized experimentally using non-equilibrium feedback manipulation of a Brownian particle 10 .”