Harnessing fluctuations in thermodynamic computing via time-reversal symmetries
Harnessing fluctuations in thermodynamic computing via time-reversal symmetries
We experimentally demonstrate that highly structured distributions of work emerge during even the simple task of erasing a single bit. These are signatures of a refined suite of time-reversal symmetries in distinct functional classes of microscopic trajectories. As a consequence, we introduce a broad family of conditional fluctuation theorems that …