{"id":6553,"date":"2018-02-19T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/the-details-are-in-the-devil-maxwells-demon-in-the-real-world\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:14:24","slug":"the-details-are-in-the-devil-maxwells-demon-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/the-details-are-in-the-devil-maxwells-demon-in-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The details are in the devil: Maxwell\u2019s demon in the real world"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p><strong>About the topic<\/strong><\/p><p>One hundred and fifty years ago, Maxwell first posed the thought experiment that become known as \u201cMaxwell\u2019s demon.\u201d Designed to understand more deeply the nature of the newly formulated second law of thermodynamics, the demon was to play a long, controversial role in the development of statistical physics. Just two months later, Maxwell\u2019s paper \u201cOn governors\u201d gave the first analysis of a feedback system. These two foundational works reflect the fundamental and practical aspects of control. I will present an experiment that unites the two: using feedback to create \u201cimpossible\u201d dynamics, we make a Maxwell demon that can reach the fundamental limits to control set by thermodynamics. We test\u2014and then extend\u2014Rolf Landauer\u2019s 1961 prediction that information erasure requires at least as much work as can be extracted from a system by virtue of information. These fundamental thermodynamic limits are benchmarks for evaluating the performance of practical information engines, such as those active within cells and other complex systems.<\/p><p><strong>About the speaker<\/strong><\/p><p>John Bechhoefer is Professor of Physics at Simon Fraser University, near Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada. He has a background in experimental nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, with applications to both soft matter and biophysical systems. Starting in graduate school at the University of Chicago, he has been fascinated by feedback and associated issues in control theory. This fascination led to a long tutorial presentation in Reviews of Modern Physics that is being updated and expanded to a book. His current research is at the intersection of thermodynamics, statistical physics, control theory, and information theory.<\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6554,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2018-01-24 16:00:00","event_end_date":"2018-01-24 17:30:00","event_speaker_name":"Prof. John Bechhoefer, Dept. of Physics at Simon Fraser University, Canada","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Campus Limpertsberg - 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