Reversible feedback confinement

We present a feedback protocol that is able to confine a system to a single microstate without heat dissipation. The protocol adjusts the Hamiltonian of the system in such a way that the Bayesian posterior distribution after measurement is in equilibrium. As a result, the whole process satisfies fee...

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Autores: Granger, Léo, Dinis Vizcaíno, Luis Ignacio, Horowitz, Jordan M., Rodríguez Parrondo, Juan Manuel
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/17693
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/17693
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:539.1
Thermodynamics
Information
Principle
Física nuclear
2207 Física Atómica y Nuclear
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Resumo:We present a feedback protocol that is able to confine a system to a single microstate without heat dissipation. The protocol adjusts the Hamiltonian of the system in such a way that the Bayesian posterior distribution after measurement is in equilibrium. As a result, the whole process satisfies feedback reversibility - the process is indistinguishable from its time reversal- and assures the lowest possible dissipation for confinement. In spite of the whole process being reversible it can surprisingly be implemented in finite time. We illustrate the idea with a Brownian particle in a harmonic trap with increasing stiffness and present a general theory of reversible feedback confinement for systems with discrete states. editor's choice Copyright (C) EPLA, 2016.