Many-body Szilárd engine with giant number fluctuations

Szilárd's information engine is a canonical example in the field of thermodynamics of information. We realize experimentally a macroscopic many-particle Szilárd engine that consists of active particles and use it to lift a mass against gravity. We show that the extractable work per cycle increa...

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Main Authors: Omer Chor, Amir Sohachi, Rémi Goerlich, Eran Rosen, Saar Rahav, Yael Roichman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-12-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043193