Maxwell’s Demon in a single-electron circuit
Jukka Pekola, Low Temperature Laboratory Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Tapio Ala-Nissila, Aki Kutvonen, Dmitry Golubev
Olli-Pentti Saira Ville Maisi Dmitri Averin, SUNY Takahiro Sagawa,
- U. Tokyo
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Maxwells Demon in a single-electron circuit Jukka Pekola, Low Temperature Laboratory Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland Dmitri Jonne Takahiro Olli-Pentti Ville Averin, Koski Sagawa, Saira Maisi SUNY U. Tokyo Tapio Ala-Nissila,
Tapio Ala-Nissila, Aki Kutvonen, Dmitry Golubev
Isothermal expansion of the ”single-molecule gas” does work against the load Figure from Maruyama et al.,
(L. Szilard 1929)
É. Roldán, I. A. Martínez, J. M. R. Parrondo, D. Petrov, Nature
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 0.0 0.2 0.4
ENERGY ng
n = 0 n = 1 Change in internal (charging) energy
Quasi-static drive Fast drive after the decision
Measurement
Decreasing ramping rate
Experiment on a colloidal particle: Corresponds to our experiment:
CHARGE STATES GATE VOLTAGE Quasi-static ramp Measurement and decision
Whole cycle with ca. 3000 repetitions:
review: U. Seifert, Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 126001 (2012)
”dissipated work” 2nd law of thermodynamics
O.-P. Saira et al., PRL 109, 180601 (2012); J.V. Koski et al., Nature Physics 9, 644 (2013). . Detector current Gate drive
TIME (s)
P(Wd) Wd /EC The distributions satisfy Jarzynski equality:
Wd /EC P(Wd)/P(-Wd)
Measurements of n at different detector bandwidths For a symmetric two-state system:
040601 (2013).
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Ng, N ng, n Vg Ug
V
Ng, N ng, n Vg Ug
TL TR Tdet I
JP, J. V. Koski, and D. V. Averin, PRB 89, 081309 (2014)
Both TL and TR drop: SET entropy decreases Joule’s law and 2nd law violated if not for the heat dissipation in detector
DE0 DEA q
1/2 A X A X
ADIABATIC SWEEP
FAST SWEEP (RESET) MEASUREMENT NO PULSE