The Physics of Maxwell's demon and information

Abstract

Maxwell's demon was born in 1867 and still thrives in modern physics. He plays important roles in clarifying the connections between two theories: thermodynamics and information. Here, we present the history of the demon and a variety of interesting consequences of the second law of thermodynamics, mainly in quantum mechanics, but also in the theory of gravity. We also highlight some of the recent work that explores the role of information, illuminated by Maxwell's demon, in the arena of quantum information theory.

24 pages, 13 figures. v2: some refs added, figs improved

References in corpus (36)

• Separability Criterion for Density Matrices
• Separability of Mixed States: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
• Purification of Noisy Entanglement and Faithful Teleportation via Noisy Channels
• Thermodynamics of Spacetime: The Einstein Equation of State
• Quantifying Entanglement
• The holographic principle
• Entanglement Measures and Purification Procedures
• The Role of Relative Entropy in Quantum Information Theory
• Superconducting Circuits and Quantum Information
• Quantum Thermodynamic Cycles and quantum heat engines
• Bell Inequalities and the Separability Criterion
• The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
• On the quantum, classical and total amount of correlations in a quantum state
• A Thermodynamical Approach to Quantifying Quantum Correlations
• Dissipation: The phase-space perspective
• Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics
• Information Loss in Black Holes
• Local versus non-local information in quantum information theory: formalism and phenomena
• The second law, Maxwell's daemon and work derivable from quantum heat engines
• Quantum Discord and Maxwell's Demons
• An improved bound on distillable entanglement
• A quantum-mechanical Maxwell's demon
• Einselection and Decoherence from an Information Theory Perspective
• The physics of forgetting: Landauer's erasure principle and information theory
• Entropic uncertainty relations and entanglement
• Quantum Heat Engine With Multi-Level Quantum Systems
• Quantum Heat Engines Using Superconducting Quantum Circuits
• Quantum-Classical Transition of Photon-Carnot Engine Induced by Quantum Decoherence
• Microscopic analysis of Clausius-Duhem processes
• Separability conditions from entropic uncertainty relations
• Breakdown of the Landauer bound for information erasure in the quantum regime
• Thermodynamical Detection of Entanglement by Maxwell's Demons
• Landauer's erasure, error correction and entanglement
• Explanation of the Gibbs paradox within the framework of quantum thermodynamics
• The Holevo bound and Landauer's principle
• Thermodynamical Cost of Accessing Quantum Information

Cited by in corpus (344)

• Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems, and molecular machines
• Quantum Simulation
• The classical-quantum boundary for correlations: discord and related measures
• Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale
• Colloquium. Quantum Fluctuation Relations: Foundations and Applications
• Information heat engine: converting information to energy by feedback control
• Quantum Thermodynamics
• The role of quantum information in thermodynamics --- a topical review
• Quantum Thermodynamics
• Quantum Thermodynamic Cycles and quantum heat engines
• Description of quantum coherence in thermodynamic processes requires constraints beyond free energy
• Fundamental aspects of steady-state conversion of heat to work at the nanoscale
• Quantum heat engines and refrigerators: Continuous devices
• Generalized Jarzynski Equality under Nonequilibrium Feedback Control
• High-precision test of Landauer's principle in a feedback trap
• The thermodynamic meaning of negative entropy
• Minimal Energy Cost for Thermodynamic Information Processing: Measurement and Information Erasure
• Second law and Landauer principle far from equilibrium
• The resource theory of informational nonequilibrium in thermodynamics
• Nonperturbative theory of weak pre- and post-selected measurements
• Work and information processing in a solvable model of Maxwell's demon
• Quantum and Information Thermodynamics: A Unifying Framework based on Repeated Interactions
• Quantum feedback: theory, experiments, and applications
• Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Feedback Control
• Extractable Work from Correlations
• Fluctuation Theorem with Information Exchange: Role of Correlations in Stochastic Thermodynamics
• Observing a quantum Maxwell demon at work
• Quantum Szilard Engine
• Understanding quantum measurement from the solution of dynamical models
• Thermodynamics with continuous information flow
• Quantum thermodynamic devices: from theoretical proposals to experimental reality
• Extracting work from quantum measurement in Maxwell demon engines
• Quantum Thermodynamic Cycles and Quantum Heat Engines (II)
• Quantum technologies need a Quantum Energy Initiative
• Perspective: Quantum Thermodynamics
• Coherence and measurement in quantum thermodynamics
• Quantum thermal machines and batteries
• Photonic Maxwell's demon
• Quantum Measurement Cooling
• Extracting work from a single heat bath through feedback
• Experimental rectification of entropy production by a Maxwell's Demon in a quantum system
• Thermodynamic Unification of Optimal Transport: Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation, Minimum Dissipation, and Thermodynamic Speed Limits
• The Minimal Work Cost of Information Processing
• Jarzynski-like equality for the out-of-time-ordered correlator
• Thermodynamics of quantum systems under dynamical control
• Information gain and loss for a quantum Maxwell's demon
• Superradiant Quantum Heat Engine
• Maxwell's Refrigerator: An Exactly Solvable Model
• Thermodynamic Reversibility in Feedback Processes
• Theory of nonequilibrium free energy transduction by molecular machines
• Unifying Three Perspectives on Information Processing in Stochastic Thermodynamics
• Minimal Self-Contained Quantum Refrigeration Machine Based on Four Quantum Dots
• Experimental demonstration of information to energy conversion in a quantum system at the Landauer Limit
• Entanglement and the Thermodynamic Arrow of Time
• Thermodynamic and Logical Reversibilities Revisited
• Generalized Laws of Thermodynamics in the Presence of Correlations
• Heat engine driven by purely quantum information
• Imitating Chemical Motors with Optimal Information Motors
• Single-atom demonstration of quantum Landauer principle
• Quantum Heat Current under Non-perturbative and Non-Markovian Conditions: Applications to Heat Machines
• Thermodynamics of non-Markovian reservoirs and heat engines
• Theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum discord and related measures
• Generalized detailed Fluctuation Theorem under Nonequilibrium Feedback control
• The smallest refrigerators can reach maximal efficiency
• Thermodynamic cost of creating correlations
• An autonomous and reversible Maxwell's demon
• Quantum correlated heat engine with nonlinear spin-spin interactions
• Thermodynamic efficiency of information and heat flow
• Thermodynamics of Quantum Information Flows
• Quantum Engines and Refrigerators
• Energy Cost of Creating Quantum Coherence
• Necessary and sufficient conditions for local creation of quantum correlation
• Quantum measurement and the first law of thermodynamics: the energy cost of measurement is the work value of the acquired information
• Stochastic thermodynamics with information reservoirs
• Finite-Time Quantum Landauer Principle and Quantum Coherence
• Thermodynamic meaning and power of non-Markovianity
• Rabi model as a quantum coherent heat engine: From quantum biology to superconducting circuits
• Thermoelectric performance of a driven double quantum dot
• Information-theoretic vs. thermodynamic entropy production in autonomous sensory networks
• Thermodynamics of Gambling Demons
• Information erasure without an energy cost
• Validity of Landauer's principle in the quantum regime
• Probing the power of an electronic Maxwell Demon
• Quantum fluctuations hinder finite-time information erasure near the Landauer limit
• The thermodynamics of creating correlations: Limitations and optimal protocols
• Direct measurement of nonequilibrium system entropy is consistent with Gibbs-Shannon form
• Entropy production and fluctuation theorems for Langevin processes under continuous non-Markovian feedback control
• Multipartite information flow for multiple Maxwell demons
• Spin Quantum Heat Engine Quantified by Quantum Steering
• Quantum Otto heat engine based on a multiferroic chain working substance
• Thermodynamic and quantum bounds on nonlinear DC thermoelectric transport
• Work estimation and work fluctuations in the presence of non-ideal measurements
• Identifying Functional Thermodynamics in Autonomous Maxwellian Ratchets
• Quantum thermal transistor based on the qubit-qutrit coupling
• Thermodynamics as a Consequence of Information Conservation
• Modeling Maxwell's demon with a microcanonical Szilard engine
• Phase transitions in the complex plane of physical parameters
• Stochastic thermodynamics of Langevin systems under time-delayed feedback control: I. Second-law-like inequalities
• Criteria for measures of quantum correlations
• Role of quantum coherence in the thermodynamics of energy transfer
• Experimental verification of a Jarzynski-related information-theoretic equality using a single trapped ion
• Quantum Coherence in a Quantum Heat Engine
• Detailed Jarzynski Equality applied on a Logically Irreversible Procedure
• Autonomous conversion of information to work in quantum dots
• Quantum fluctuation theorems and generalized measurements during the force protocol
• A quantum Szilard engine without heat from a thermal reservoir
• Thermodynamic limits to information harvesting by sensory systems
• Bounds in Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics
• Minimal model of a heat engine: An information theory approach
• A violation of the uncertainty principle implies a violation of the second law of thermodynamics
• Thermodynamics in Single-Electron Circuits and Superconducting Qubits
• Experimental entanglement-enhanced work extraction based on a Maxwell's demon
• Probing Maxwell's Demon with a Nanoscale Thermometer
• Two-dimensional Graphene Superlattice Made with Partial Hydrogenation
• Statistics of the dissipated energy in driven single-electron transitions
• How an autonomous quantum Maxwell demon can harness correlated information
• Quantum Maxwell's Demon in Thermodynamic Cycles
• Feedback controlled heat transport in quantum devices: Theory and solid state experimental proposal
• Detailed Fluctuation Relation for Arbitrary Measurement and Feedback Schemes
• Toolbox for reconstructing quantum theory from rules on information acquisition
• Boosting the performance of the Quantum Otto heat engines
• Daemonic ergotropy in continuously-monitored open quantum batteries
• Steering heat engines: a truly quantum Maxwell demon
• Role of Quantum Coherence in Thermodynamics
• Effects of Quantum Coherence on Work Statistics
• The original Wigner's friend paradox within a realist toy model
• Work extraction via quantum nondemolition measurements of qubits in cavities: Non-Markovian effects
• Irreversible processes without energy dissipation in an isolated Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model
• Achieve Higher Efficiency at Maximum Power with Finite-time Quantum Otto Cycle
• The presence of quantum correlations result in non-vanishing ergotropic gap
• Quantum heat engine based on level degeneracy
• Efficiently Fuelling a Quantum Engine with Incompatible Measurements
• General achievable bound of extractable work under feedback control
• Efficiency of Single Particle Engines
• Autonomous dissipative Maxwell's demon in a diamond spin qutrit
• Multi-Particle Quantum Szilard Engine with Optimal Cycles Assisted by a Maxwell's Demon
• Experimental realization of Feynman's ratchet
• Squeezing as the source of inefficiency in the quantum Otto cycle
• Dimension of physical systems, information processing, and thermodynamics
• Quantum Fokker-Planck Master Equation for Continuous Feedback Control
• Effects of error on fluctuations under feedback control
• Maxwell's demon in a double quantum dot with continuous charge detection
• Energy-momentum tensor and metric near the Schwarzschild sphere
• Transient Dissipation and Structural Costs of Physical Information Transduction
• Landauer's Principle in a Quantum Szilard Engine Without Maxwell's Demon
• Quantum Fluctuation Theorems
• Dynamics of Osmosis in a Porous Medium
• Distribution of current fluctuations in a bistable conductor
• Steering Bose-Einstein condensates despite time symmetry
• Unconventional four-terminal thermoelectric transport due to inelastic transport: cooling by transverse current, transverse thermoelectric effect and Maxwell demon
• Stochastic Heat Engine Powered By Active Dissipation
• Implications of Coupling in Quantum Thermodynamic Machines
• Locality of temperature in spin chains
• Full counting statistics approach to the quantum non-equilibrium Landauer bound
• Quantum engine based on general measurements
• Scaling of the local quantum uncertainty at quantum phase transitions
• Thermodynamic aspects of information transfer in complex dynamical systems
• The Unruh Quantum Otto Engine
• Thermodynamic description of non-Markovian information flux of nonequilibrium open quantum systems
• Bayes' rule, generalized discord, and nonextensive thermodynamics
• Information-theoretic bound on the energy cost of stochastic simulation
• Thermal entanglement and efficiency of the quantum Otto cycle for the su(1,1) Tavis-Cummings system
• Quantum heat engines and nonequilibrium temperature
• Extrapolating the thermodynamic length with finite-time measurements
• Numerically "exact" simulations of a quantum Carnot cycle: Analysis using thermodynamic work diagrams
• Detecting Gaussian entanglement via extractable work
• Thermodynamics of collisional models for Brownian particles: General properties and efficiency
• Double quantum-dot engine fueled by entanglement between electron spins
• Information flow and optimal protocol for Maxwell's demon single electron pump
• Universal efficiency at optimal work with Bayesian statistics
• Scalar and fermionic Unruh Otto engines
• Measurement-based quantum thermal machines with feedback control
• Quantum thermodynamics in adiabatic open systems and its trapped-ion experimental realization
• Conditional Decoupling of Quantum Information
• Hamiltonian Derivations of the Generalized Jarzynski Equalities under Feedback Control
• Information geometry approach to quantum stochastic thermodynamics
• Entropy production and fluctuations in a Maxwell's refrigerator with squeezing
• Autonomous quantum Maxwell's demon based on two exchange-coupled quantum dots
• Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
• Quantum Discord for Investigating Quantum Correlations without Entanglement in Solids
• Work extraction from microcanonical bath
• Efficiency at maximum power of a Carnot quantum information engine
• Conditional work statistics of quantum measurements
• Maxwell's demon in the quantum-Zeno regime and beyond
• Work Extraction and Landauer's Principle in a Quantum Spin Hall Device
• Stochastic Thermodynamics of a Particle in a Box
• Work fluctuation-dissipation trade-off in heat engines
• Energy dissipation in an adaptive molecular circuit
• Error-transparent evolution: the ability of multi-body interactions to bypass decoherence
• Heat cost of parametric generation of microwave squeezed states
• Energetic cost of feedback control
• Thermodynamic principle for quantum metrology
• Power and Efficiency of a Thermal Engine with a Coherent Bath
• Measurement-based quantum Otto engine with a two-spin system coupled by anisotropic interaction: enhanced efficiency at finite times
• Numerically "exact" simulations of entropy production in the fully quantum regime: Boltzmann entropy versus von Neumann entropy
• Non-commutative space engine: a boost to thermodynamic processes
• Revisiting the quantum Szilard engine with fully quantum considerations
• Equivalence condition for the canonical and microcanonical ensembles in coupled spin systems
• Enhanced Photonic Maxwell's Demon with Correlated Baths
• Minimising the heat dissipation of quantum information erasure
• Maxwell's Demon and Data Compression
• Autonomous demon exploiting heat and information at the trajectory level
• Thermodynamics of Quantum Measurement and the Demon's Arrow of Time
• Fluctuation Relations in Stochastic Thermodynamics
• Thermodynamic Constraints on Quantum Information Gain and Error Correction: A Triple Trade-Off
• Dissipative state transfer and Maxwell's demon in single quantum trajectories: Excitation transfer between two noninteracting qubits via unbalanced dissipation rates
• The Bayesian Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Quasi-autonomous quantum thermal machines and quantum to classical energy flow
• Perfect Discrimination of Non-Orthogonal Separable Pure States on Bipartite System in General Probabilistic Theory
• Thermodynamics of Random Number Generation
• Conditional entropy production and quantum fluctuation theorem of dissipative information: Theory and experiments
• Szilard engine revisited; information from time forward and backward process
• Thermodynamically optimal creation of correlations
• Fluctuation theorems in feedback-controlled open quantum systems: quantum coherence and absolute irreversibility
• Unruh quantum Otto engine in the presence of a reflecting boundary
• Black hole as an Information Eraser
• Functional Thermodynamics of Maxwellian Ratchets: Constructing and Deconstructing Patterns, Randomizing and Derandomizing Behaviors
• Quantum Ergotropy and Quantum Feedback Control
• Power of an optical Maxwell's demon in the presence of photon-number correlations
• Dynamical Landauer Principle: Quantifying Information Transmission by Thermodynamics
• Ballistic reversible gates matched to bit storage: Plans for an efficient CNOT gate using fluxons
• Spins-based Quantum Otto Engines and Majorisation
• Feedback Control of Waiting Times
• Extended quantum Maxwell demon acting over macroscopic distances
• Experimental Validation of Enhanced Information Capacity by Quantum Switch in Accordance with Thermodynamic Laws
• The laws of thermodynamics for quantum dissipative systems: A quasi-equilibrium Helmholtz energy approach
• Maxwell's demon across the quantum-to-classical transition
• Dissipation reduction and information-to-measurement conversion in DNA pulling experiments with feedback protocols
• The general fine-grained uncertainty relation and the second law of thermodynamics
• A multipurpose information engine that can go beyond the Carnot limit
• A chiral Maxwell Demon
• Does Probability become Fuzzy in Small Regions of Spacetime?
• Quantum state space-dimension as a quantum resource
• Energy carries Information
• Fundamental aspects of steady state heat to work conversion
• New entropic inequalities for qubit and unimodal Gaussian states
• Quantum thermodynamics with a single superconducting vortex
• Classical and quantum thermodynamics in a non-equilibrium regime: Application to Stirling engine
• Universal validity of the second law of information thermodynamics
• Ultra-low-energy straintronics using multiferroic composites
• From the Internet of Information to the Internet of Intelligence
• Daemonic quantum battery charged by thermalization
• Quantum work: Reconciling quantum mechanics and thermodynamics
• Information bound for entropy production from the detailed fluctuation theorem
• Landauer's principle in Qubit-Cavity quantum field theory Interaction in Vacuum and Thermal States
• Macrospin in external magnetic field: Entropy production and fluctuation theorems
• Thermodynamically free quantum measurements
• An entropic analysis of approximate quantum error correction
• Maxwell's demon in superconducting circuits
• Verifying detailed fluctuation relations for discrete feedback-controlled quantum dynamics
• Simulating finite-time quantum isothermal processes with generic superconducting quantum circuit
• Realization of quantum Maxwell's demon with solid-state spins
• Two-photon driven nonlinear dynamics and entanglement of an atom in a non uniform cavity
• Extracting work from the magnetic field coupled Brownian particles
• Generalized Continuous Maxwell Demons
• Extracting work from a single reservoir in the non-Markovian underdamped regime
• Simple scheme for extracting work with a single bath
• Alternative experimental ways to access entropy production
• Ultra-low-energy straintronics using multiferroic composites
• Ultra-Low-Energy Straintronics Using Multiferroic Composites
• Information thermodynamics: from physics to neuroscience
• Entropy production in a photovoltaic cell
• Analytical calculation of electron's group velocity surfaces in uniform strained graphene
• Quantum process inference for a single qubit Maxwell's demon
• Second law of thermodynamics with quantum memory
• Fast Functionalization with High Performance in the Autonomous Information Engine
• Heat flow from a measurement apparatus monitoring a dissipative qubit
• Three types of Landauer's erasure principle: a microscopic view
• Classical and quantum thermodynamics described as a system-bath model: The dimensionless minimum work principle
• Quasiprobability fluctuation theorem behind the spread of quantum information
• Work fluctuation and total entropy production in nonequilibrium processes
• Obtaining efficient collisional engines via velocity dependent drivings
• Holographic dark information energy: Predicted dark energy measurement
• Finite-Time Optimization of Quantum Szilard heat engine
• Quantum thermodynamic advantage in work extraction from steerable quantum correlations
• Charge Localization and Hopping in a Topologically Engineered GNR
• Landauer limit of energy dissipation in a magnetostrictive particle
• Quantum heat engine based on quantum interferometry: the SU(1,1) Otto cycle
• All-thermal reversal of heat currents using qutrits
• Maxwell Demon and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering
• Entropic bounds between two thermal equilibrium states
• A Maxwell demon model connecting information and thermodynamics
• Experimental Verification of Demon-Involved Fluctuation Theorems
• Phase Filters for a Novel Kind of Asymmetric Transport
• Large deviation analysis of a simple information engine
• Microcanonical Szilárd engines beyond the quasistatic regime
• Finite-time quantum measurement cooling beyond the Carnot limit
• Artificially intelligent Maxwell's demon for optimal control of open quantum systems
• A Review of the System-Intrinsic Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Extended Space (MNEQT) with Applications
• Necessity of Feedback Control for the Quantum Maxwell Demon in a Finite-Time Steady Feedback Cycle
• The remote Maxwell demon as energy down-converter
• Operational derivation of Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution with Maxwell's demon model
• Optimising finite-time quantum information engines using Pareto bounds
• Aquaporin-1 can work as a Maxwell's Demon in the Body
• Efficiency estimation for an equilibrium version of Maxwell refrigerator
• Illusory cracks in the second law of thermodynamics in quantum nanoelectronics
• A Dynamic Dark Information Energy Consistent with Planck Data
• Demonstration of Maxwell Demon-assistant Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering via Superconducting Quantum Processor
• Thermal Conductivity of Square Ice
• A Shortcut to Finite-time Memory Erasure
• Quantum Isothermal Reversible Process of Particles in a Box with a Delta Potential
• Detecting Two Qubit Both-Way Positive Discord States
• Driven particle in a one dimensional periodic potential with feedback control: efficiency and power optimization
• A Strongly Coupled Open System with Non-linear Bath: Fluctuation-Dissipation and Langevin Dynamics
• Daemonic ergotropy of Gaussian quantum states and the role of measurement-induced purification via general-dyne detection
• Temperature as Joules per Bit
• Feedback-charging a metallic island
• The ultimate physical limits to reversibility
• Quantum circuit simulation of black hole evaporation and Maxwell demon interpretation
• Noninvasive and nonadiabatic quantum Maxwell demon
• Work as a Memory Record
• Cooling and work extraction under memory-assisted Markovian thermal processes
• Price of information in games of chance: a statistical physics approach
• How small can Maxwell's demon be? -- Lessons from autonomous electronic feedback models
• Thermodynamic bound on quantum state discrimination
• A Dynamical Quantum Daemon
• Informational work storage in quantum thermodynamics
• Memory-aware feedback enhances power in active information engines
• Information form of the second law of thermodynamics
• On Ergotropic Gap of Tripartite Separable Systems
• Revisiting weak measurement in light of thermodynamics
• Quantum Thermodynamics Allows Quantum Measurement Almost Without Collapse
• A Differential-Geometric Approach to Quantum Ignorance Consistent with Entropic Properties of Statistical Mechanics
• Extracting energy from non-equilibrium fluctuations without using information
• Improving the efficiency of finite-time memory erasure with potential barrier shaping
• Information-thermodynamic bounds on precision in interacting quantum systems
• Carnot's theorem and Szilárd engine
• Second law for an autonomous information machine connected with multiple baths
• A Coherent View on Entropy
• Probing the non-locality of Majorana fermions via quantum correlations
• On Quantum Semipermeable Barriers: Investigating Maxwell's Demon Toolbox
• Is the Clausius inequality a consequence of the second law?
• Direct temperature readout in nonequilibrium quantum thermometry
• Information Processing in Quantum Thermodynamic Systems: an Autonomous Hamiltonian Approach
• Maxwell's demon and information channel width of a black hole
• Quantum Computation
• Global-Local Duality of Energetic Control Cost in Multipartite Quantum Correlated Systems
• Coarse-grained quantum thermodynamics: Observation-dependent quantities, observation-independent laws
• Generalised Precoded Spatial Modulation for Integrated Wireless Information and Power Transfer
• Canonical Quantum Coarse-Graining and Surfaces of Ignorance
• New Fluctuation Theorem on Maxwell's Demon
• Thermodynamic Cost of Random-Time Protocols
• Singlet-Like Correlations: Equal Peak Work, Unequal Robustness
• Preparation of quantum correlations assisted by a steering Maxwell demon