Autonomous conversion of information to work in quantum dots

We consider an autonomous implementation of Maxwell's demon in a quantum dot architecture acting on a system without changing its number of particles or its energy. As in the original thought experiment, only the second law of thermodynamics is seemingly violated when disregarding the demon. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rafael Sánchez, Peter Samuelsson, Patrick P. Potts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2019-10-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033066