Photonic Maxwell’s Demon: Feed-forward methods for photonic thermodynamic tasks

Maxwell’s Demon is at the heart of the interrelation between quantum information processing and thermodynamics. In this thought experiment, a demon extracts work from two thermal baths at equilibrium by gaining information about them at the single-particle level and applying classical feed-forward o...

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Published in:EPJ Web of conferences 2022, Vol.266, p.8018
Main Authors: Jacquet, Maxime, Zanin, Guilherme, Antesberger, Michael, Souto Ribeiro, Paulo, Rozema, Lee, Walther, Philip
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Language:English
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Summary:Maxwell’s Demon is at the heart of the interrelation between quantum information processing and thermodynamics. In this thought experiment, a demon extracts work from two thermal baths at equilibrium by gaining information about them at the single-particle level and applying classical feed-forward operations. In this talk I will show how to implement a photonic version of Maxwell’s Demon with active feed-forward in a fiber-based system using ultrafast optical switches. This is the first realisation of an active Demon. The experiment [1] shows that, if correlations exist between the two thermal baths, the Demon can extract over an order of magnitude more work than without correlations. This demonstrates the great potential of photonic experiments – which provide a unique degree of control on the system – to access new regimes in quantum thermodynamics.
ISSN:2100-014X
2100-014X
DOI:10.1051/epjconf/202226608018