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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 90, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.022143
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- Department of Science and Technology, India
- MPIPKS, Germany
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Work can be extracted from a single bath beyond the limit set by the second law of thermodynamics by performing measurement on the system and utilizing the acquired information. This imposes an upper bound on extracted work and maintains a generalized (i.e., with information) second law. As an example, we studied a Brownian particle confined in a two-dimensional harmonic trap in the presence of a magnetic field, whose position coordinates are measured with finite precision. Two separate cases are investigated in this study: (A) moving the center of the potential and (B) varying the stiffness of the potential. Optimal protocols that extremize the work in a finite-time process are explicitly calculated for these two cases. For case A, we show that even though the optimal protocols depend on magnetic field, surprisingly, extracted work is independent of the field. For case B, both the optimal protocol and the extracted work depend on the magnetic field. However, the presence of a magnetic field always reduces the extraction of work for the latter case.
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