LEADER 03928nam 22006135 450 001 9910254600603321 005 20200705033451.0 010 $a3-319-63694-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-63694-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001631588 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4933605 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-63694-8 035 $a(PPN)203851528 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001631588 100 $a20170801d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aExperiments on the Thermodynamics of Information Processing /$fby Mom?ilo Gavrilov 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (147 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 300 $a"Doctoral Thesis accepted by Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada." 311 $a3-319-63693-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aIntroduction -- Feedback Trap -- Real-time Calibration of a Feedback Trap -- High-Precision Test of Landauer?s Principle -- Erasure without Work in an Asymmetric, Double-well Potential -- Thermodynamical and Logical Irreversibility -- Arbitrarily Slow, Non-quasistatic, Isothermal Transformations -- Partial Memory Erasure: Testing Shannon?s Entropy Function -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis thesis reveals how the feedback trap technique, developed to trap small objects for biophysical measurement, could be adapted for the quantitative study of the thermodynamic properties of small systems. The experiments in this thesis are related to Maxwell?s demon, a hypothetical intelligent, ?neat fingered? being that uses information to extract work from heat, apparently creating a perpetual-motion machine.  The second law of thermodynamics should make that impossible, but how? That question has stymied physicists and provoked debate for a century and a half. The experiments in this thesis confirm a hypothesis proposed by Rolf Landauer over fifty years ago: that Maxwell?s demon would need to erase information, and that erasing information?resetting the measuring device to a standard starting state?requires dissipating as much energy as is gained.  For his thesis work, the author used a ?feedback trap? to study the motion of colloidal particles in ?v irtual potentials? that may be manipulated arbitrarily. The feedback trap confines a freely diffusing particle in liquid by periodically measuring its position and applying an electric field to move it back to the origin. 410 0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 606 $aThermodynamics 606 $aPhysical measurements 606 $aMeasurement 606 $aPhysics 606 $aThermodynamics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P21050 606 $aMeasurement Science and Instrumentation$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P31040 606 $aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000 615 0$aThermodynamics. 615 0$aPhysical measurements. 615 0$aMeasurement. 615 0$aPhysics. 615 14$aThermodynamics. 615 24$aMeasurement Science and Instrumentation. 615 24$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. 676 $a536.7 700 $aGavrilov$b Mom?ilo$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0821818 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254600603321 996 $aExperiments on the Thermodynamics of Information Processing$91830173 997 $aUNINA