Speaker
Prof.
Juan Parrondo
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Description
To induce transport, detailed balance must be broken. A
common mechanism is to bias the dynamics with a
thermodynamic fuel, such as chemical energy. An intriguing,
alternative strategy is for a Maxwell demon to effect the
bias using information and feedback. In this seminar I will
review the thermodynamics of information and present two
systems, a chemical motor and an information motor,
exhibiting the same dynamical behavior but with very
different thermodynamical properties. The analysis of these
motors elucidates the manner in which information is
incorporated into a physical system.
