Multipartite information flow for multiple Maxwell demons
arXiv:1501.05549 · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2015/03/P03006
Abstract
The second law of thermodynamics dictates the fundamental limits to the amount of energy and information that can be exchanged between physical systems. In this work, we extend a thermodynamic formalism describing this flow of energy and information developed for a pair of bipartite systems to many multipartite systems. We identify a natural thermodynamic quantity that describes the information exchanged among these systems. We then introduce and discuss a refined version. Our results are illustrated with a model of two, competing Maxwell demons.
13 pages, 3 figures
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