Self-Consistent Microscopic Theory of Fluctuation-Induced Transport
Self-Consistent Microscopic Theory of Fluctuation-Induced Transport
A Maxwell's demon type ``information engine" which extracts work from a bath is constructed from a microscopic Hamiltonian for the whole system including a subsystem, a thermal bath, and a nonequilibrium bath of phonons or photons which represents an information source/sink. The kinetics of the engine is calculated self-consistently from …