Quantum Szilard engine.

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.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2010-06-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.070401arXiv 1006.1471PMID 21405504
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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