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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 90, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.062107
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- DFG [SCHA 1646/2-1, SFB 910, GRK 1558]
- National Science Foundation (USA) [DMR-1206971]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1206971] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We propose a physically realizable Maxwell's demon device using a spin valve interacting unitarily for a short time with electrons placed on a tape of quantum dots, which is thermodynamically equivalent to the device introduced by Mandal and Jarzynski [D. Mandal and C. Jarzynski, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 11641 (2012)]. The model is exactly solvable and we show that it can be equivalently interpreted as a Brownian ratchet demon. We then consider a measurement-based discrete feedback scheme, which produces identical system dynamics, but possesses a different second law inequality. We show that the second law for discrete feedback control can provide a smaller, equal, or larger bound on the maximum extractable work as compared to the second law involving the tape of bits. Finally, we derive an effective master equation governing the system evolution for Poisson distributed bits on the tape (or measurement times, respectively) and we show that its associated entropy production rate contains the same physical statement as the second law involving the tape of bits.
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