Maxwell's Demon, Szilard's Engine and Quantum Measurements
Abstract
We propose and analyze a quantum version of Szilard's ``one-molecule engine.'' In particular, we recover, in the quantum context, Szilard's conclusion concerning the free energy ``cost'' of measurements: F ≥ kB T2 per bit of information.
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