Juan M. R. Parrondo

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theoretical framework for the thermodynamics of information based on stochastic thermodynamics and fluctuation theorems, review some recent experimental results, and present an overview of the state of the art in the field.

TL;DR: It is shown that the average dissipation, upon perturbing a Hamiltonian system arbitrarily far out of equilibrium in a transition between two canonical equilibrium states, is exactly given by =W-DeltaF=kTD(rho||rho[ over ])=kT, where rho and rho[over ] are the phase-space density of the system measured at the same intermediate but otherwise arbitrary point in time, for the forward and backward process.

TL;DR: This work reports an experimental realization of a Carnot engine with a single optically trapped Brownian particle as the working substance and analyses the fluctuations of the finite-time efficiency, showing that the Carnot bound can be surpassed for a small number of non-equilibrium cycles.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple model of a spatially distributed system subject to multiplicative noise, white in space and time, can undergo a nonequilibrium phase transition to a symmetry-breaking state, while no such transition exists in the absence of the noise term.

TL;DR: New games where all the rules depend only on the history of the game and not on the capital are presented, which significantly increases the parameter space for which the effect operates.