Thermodynamics

Photonic Maxwell’s demon

M. Vidrighin, O. Dahlsten, M. Barbieri, M. Kim, V. Vedral, I. Walmsley

Physical Review Letters 116, 50401 (2016)

With inspiration from Maxwell’s classic thought experiment, it is possible to extract macroscopic work from microscopic measurements of photons.

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