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Thermodynamics of genuine nonequilibrium states under feedback control
1II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
Abstract:
For genuine nonequilibrium states that even at fixed external control parameter exhibit dissipation, we extend the Hatano-Sasa equality to processes with feedback control. The resulting bound on the maximal extractable work is substantially sharper than what would follow from applying the Sagawa-Ueda equality to transitions involving such states. For repeated measurements at short enough intervals, the power thus extracted can even exceed the average cost of driving as demonstrated explicitly with a simple, analytically solvable example.
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