Imperial College London

Professor Myungshik Kim

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Chair in Theoretical Quantum Information Sciences
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7754m.kim

 
 
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Location

 

1202Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Vidrighin:2016:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.050401,
author = {Vidrighin, MD and Dahlsten, O and Barbieri, M and Kim, MS and Vedral, V and Walmsley, IA},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.050401},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
title = {Photonic Maxwell's demon},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.050401},
volume = {116},
year = {2016}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We report an experimental realization of Maxwell’s demon in a photonic setup. We show that ameasurement at the few-photons level followed by a feed-forward operation allows the extraction of workfrom intense thermal light into an electric circuit. The interpretation of the experiment stimulates thederivation of an equality relating work extraction to information acquired by measurement. We derive abound using this relation and show that it is in agreement with the experimental results. Our work putsforward photonic systems as a platform for experiments related to information in thermodynamics.
AU - Vidrighin,MD
AU - Dahlsten,O
AU - Barbieri,M
AU - Kim,MS
AU - Vedral,V
AU - Walmsley,IA
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.050401
PY - 2016///
SN - 1079-7114
TI - Photonic Maxwell's demon
T2 - Physical Review Letters
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.050401
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/30706
VL - 116
ER -