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Information engine with feedback delay based on a two-level system.

Kiran V¹, Toby Joseph¹

¹Department of Physics, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar 403726, Goa, India.

Physical Review. E

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This study analyzes an information engine with feedback delay. Optimal performance, including efficiency and work output, is achieved when temperature matches energy levels, and delay times are comparable to relaxation times.

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Area of Science:

Thermodynamics
Statistical Mechanics
Information Theory

Background:

Information engines leverage measurement and feedback to perform work.
The impact of delay in feedback loops on engine performance is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To analytically investigate an information engine model with feedback delay.
To determine how delay time and energy spacing affect engine efficiency and work output.
To verify fundamental fluctuation theorems for this system.

Main Methods:

Analytical study of a two-level system coupled to a thermal reservoir.
Incorporation of a delay time between state measurement and feedback.
Analysis of efficiency and work extracted per cycle as functions of delay time and energy levels.

Main Results:

Work extraction is possible over an increased range of delay times with higher temperatures.
Maximum efficiency and work per cycle occur when thermal energy (kBT) is approximately twice the energy level difference (U0).
The generalized Jarzynski equality and integral fluctuation theorem are explicitly verified.

Conclusions:

Feedback delay significantly influences information engine performance.
The model provides a framework for understanding the interplay between information, thermodynamics, and delay.
Results align well with simulations of similar feedback systems.