ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
Active matter information machines
The relation between information and thermodynamics remains a fundamental thought-provoking issue since the days of Maxwell. The most effective platforms used to explore this relation are information machines: processes that convert measured information about a system to extractable work. A crucial question that goes beyond the currently explored regime in the field is how information machines perform out of equilibrium, namely when not in equilibrium with a thermal bath. This is the general scenario of relevance to biological systems and stands at the focus of this proposal. Our recent result, showing how temporal correlations affect the efficiency of information engines (PRL 2018),…
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