Entropy & reverse entropy · Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Information-to-work conversion by Maxwell’s demon in a superconducting circuit quantum electrodynamical system
Y. Masuyama et al. · Mar 23, 2018
The authors realized a Maxwell's demon in a superconducting circuit and verified that information can convert into work.
In short
The authors built a Maxwell's demon using a superconducting circuit to measure and control a qubit based on that measurement. They confirmed that the system successfully converts information gained from the measurement into physical work while satisfying fundamental thermodynamic laws. This experiment provides an early experimental foundation for studying how information and energy interact within artificial quantum machines.
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Read it at nature.com (opens in a new tab)- Field
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Authors
- Y. Masuyama, Ken Funo, Y. Murashita, A. Noguchi, S. Kono, Y. Tabuchi, R. Yamazaki, M. Ueda, Y. Nakamura
- Published
- Mar 23, 2018
- Cited by
- 137 papers
- In the glossary
- Entropy, Maxwell’s demon, Reverse entropy
- Kept since
- Sep 26, 2026
- How I rank it
- 3 of 5
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