Speaker
Jordan Horowitz
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Description
When two systems interact they exchange not only energy, but
also information. In this talk, I will discuss a consistent
way to incorporate this information flow into the second law
of thermodynamics, thereby placing information on equal
footing with other thermodynamic quantities, like energy and
entropy. From this framework, we will see how information
continuously generated in an auxiliary system can then be
transferred to another system that can utilize it to fuel an
otherwise impossible process, of which the Maxwell’s demon
is a prime example. I will then compare how these results
fit into the growing theoretical framework for the
thermodynamics of information.
