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L-L Yan1,2, J-T Bu3,4, Qian Zeng5
1Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Laboratory of Zhongyuan Light, <a href="https://ror.org/04ypx8c21">Zhengzhou University</a>, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
Abstract:
The limit of energy saving in the control of small systems has recently attracted much interest due to the concept refinement of the Maxwell demon. Inspired by a newly proposed set of fluctuation theorems, we report the first experimental verification of these equalities and inequalities in an ultracold ^{40}Ca^{+} ion system, confirming the intrinsic nonequilibrium in the system due to involvement of the demon. Based on elaborately designed demon-involved control protocols, such as the Szilard engine protocol, we provide experimentally quantitative evidence of the dissipative information and observe tighter bounds of both the extracted work and the demon's efficacy than the limits predicted by the Sagawa-Ueda theorem. Our results substantiate a close connection between the physical nature of information and nonequilibrium processes at the microscale, which help to further understand the thermodynamic characteristics of information and the optimal design of nanoscale and smaller systems.
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