The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Quantum Feedback Control: Maxwell's Demon with Weak Measurements

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2009-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/0906.4146v2

Phys. Rev. A 80, 012322 (2009)

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Quantum Physics

4 pages, revtex4; v2 ambiguous text in the abstract clarified, small improvements to the presentation

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Recently Sagawa and Ueda [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 080403 (2008)] derived a bound on the work that can be extracted from a quantum system with the use of feedback control. They left open the question of whether this bound could be achieved for every measurement that could be made by the controller. We show that it can, and that this follows straightforwardly from recent work on Maxwell's demon by Alicki et al. [Open Syst. Inform. Dynam. 11, 205 (2004)], for both discrete and continuous feedback control. Our analysis also shows that bare, efficient measurements always do non-negative work on a system in equilibrium, but do not add heat.

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