Quantum Szilard Engine

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2010-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/1006.1471v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.106:070401,2011

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 3 figures + supplementary information

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.070401

The Szilard engine (SZE) is the quintessence of Maxwell's demon, which can extract the work from a heat bath by utilizing information. We present the first complete quantum analysis of the SZE, and derive an analytic expression of the quantum-mechanical work performed by a quantum SZE containing an arbitrary number of molecules, where it is crucial to regard the process of insertion or removal of a wall as a legitimate thermodynamic process. We find that more (less) work can be extracted from the bosonic (fermionic) SZE due to the indistinguishability of identical particles.

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