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Quantum Thermodynamics
Non-equilibrium System as a Demon
arXiv
Authors: Rafael Sánchez, Janine Splettstoesser, Robert S. Whitney
Year
2018
Paper ID
23538
Status
Preprint
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Maxwell demons are creatures that are imagined to be able to reduce the entropy of a system without performing any work on it. Conventionally, such a Maxwell demon's intricate action consists of measuring individual particles and subsequently performing feedback. Here we show that much simpler setups can still act as demons: we demonstrate that it is sufficient to exploit a non-equilibrium distribution to seemingly break the second law of thermodynamics. We propose both an electronic and an optical implementation of this phenomenon, realizable with current technology.
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