Maxwell's Demons and Quantum Refrigerators in Superconducting Circuits
- Date
- Feb 22, 2017
- Time
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Language
- en
- Main Topic
- Physik
- Other Topics
- Physik
- Host
- Jukka Pekola (Aalto University)
- Description
- I present experiments on superconducting nano-circuits, which test the role of information in thermodynamics. Two types of Maxwell's demons (MD), a Szilard’s Engine and an autonomous MD, were realized based on single electrons. Ideally they extract heat and do work equal to kT log(2) per operation cycle, in accordance with the Landauer principle for the cost of erasing a single bit in computation. In our experiments we achieve 75% of this bound per cycle, and the missing efficiency can be quantitatively accounted for by assigning the entropy of mutual information, due to incomplete measurement, on the same footing as other contributions of entropy. In the second part of the talk I present quantum heat engine (refrigerator) based on a superconducting qubit.
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Location
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme (Room 1D1)Nöthnitzer Straße3801187Dresden
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- + 49 (0)351 871 0
- MPI-PKS
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- http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
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Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer SystemeNöthnitzer Straße3801187Dresden
- Phone
- + 49 (0)351 871 0
- MPI-PKS
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- http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
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