Probing the power of an electronic Maxwell Demon

Details Probing the power of an electronic Maxwell Demon Probing the power of an electronic Maxwell Demon

2011-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/1106.4670v2

Physical Review B 84 085418 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, 5 figures, more details added, to appear in PRB

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.085418

We suggest that a single-electron transistor continuously monitored by a quantum point contact may function as a Maxwell demon when closed-loop feedback operations are applied as time-dependent modifications of the tunneling rates across its junctions. The device may induce a current across the single-electron transistor even when no bias voltage or thermal gradient is applied. For different feedback schemes, we derive effective master equations and compare the induced feedback current and its fluctuations as well as the generated power. Provided that tunneling rates can be modified without changing the transistor level, the device may be implemented with current technology.

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