Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2011-04-02
Europhys. Lett. 95, 10005 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
6 pages, 4, figures, accepted in EPL, expanded discussion of thermodynamic reversibility
Scientific paper
The sum of the average work dissipated plus the information gained during a thermodynamic process with discrete feedback must exceed zero. We demonstrate that the minimum value of zero is attained only by feedback-reversible processes that are indistinguishable from their time-reversal, thereby extending the notion of thermodynamic reversibility to feedback processes. In addition, we prove that in every realization of a feedback-reversible process the sum of the work dissipated and change in uncertainty is zero.
Horowitz Jordan M.
Parrondo Juan M. R.
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