Experiments on the Thermodynamics of Information Processing
This thesis reveals how the feedback trap technique, developed to trap small objects for biophysical measurement, could be adapted for the quantitative study of the thermodynamic properties of small systems. The experiments in this thesis are related to Maxwell’s demon, a hypothetical intelligent, “...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63694-8 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Feedback Trap
- Real-time Calibration of a Feedback Trap
- High-Precision Test of Landauer’s Principle
- Erasure without Work in an Asymmetric, Double-well Potential
- Thermodynamical and Logical Irreversibility
- Arbitrarily Slow, Non-quasistatic, Isothermal Transformations
- Partial Memory Erasure: Testing Shannon’s Entropy Function
- Conclusion.