Parrondo's games and the zipping algorithm

Abstract

We study the relation between the discrete--time version of the flashing ratchet known as Parrondo's games and a compression technique used very recently with thermal ratchets for evaluating the transfer of information -- negentropy -- between the Brownian particle and the source of fluctuations. We present some results concerning different versions of Parrondo's games, showing all of them a good qualitative agreement between the gain and the inverse of the entropy.