3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Hunting for Maxwell's Demon in the Wild
Johan du Buisson, Jannik Ehrich, Matthew P. Leighton +4
The paradox of Maxwell's demon motivated the development of information thermodynamics and the creation of nanoscale information engines. We now understand that machines such as th…
cond-mat.stat-mech2024
Performance limits of information engines
Johan du Buisson, David A. Sivak, John Bechhoefer
We review recent studies of a colloidal information engine that consists of a bead in water and held by an optical trap. The bead is ratcheted upward without any apparent external…
cond-mat.stat-mech2023
Large deviations of the stochastic area for linear diffusions
Johan du Buisson, Thamu D. P. Mnyulwa, Hugo Touchette
The area enclosed by the two-dimensional Brownian motion in the plane was studied by Lévy, who found the characteristic function and probability density of this random variable. Fo…