Partially observable Szilárd engines

Almost a century ago, Leo Szilárd replaced Maxwell’s ‘demon’ by machinery. The resulting information engine concept laid the foundation for studying the physical nature of information. Szilárd reduced the demon’s role to mapping an observable onto a work extraction protocol, thereby creating and uti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Susanne Still, Dorian Daimer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac6b30