Extracting Work Optimally with Imprecise Measurements

Measurement and feedback allows for an external agent to extract work from a system in contact with a single thermal bath. The maximum amount of work that can be extracted in a single measurement and the corresponding feedback loop is given by the information that is acquired via the measurement, a...

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Main Authors: Luis Dinis, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-12-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/1/8