1994/10/17 by Mark M. Millonas · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #cond-mat #stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.74.10
15 pages, 2 ps figures on request, LaTeX Article Format (submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.)
arxiv created 1994/10/17 · openalex publication_date 1995/01/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A Maxwell's demon type "information engine" that extracts work from a bath is constructed from a microscopic Hamiltonian for the whole system including a subsystem, a thermal bath, and a nonequilibrium bath of phonons or photons that represents an information source or sink. The kinetics of the engine is calculated self-consistently from the state of the nonequilibrium bath, and the relation of this kinetics to the underlying microscopic thermodynamics is established.