Extracting work from magnetic-field-coupled Brownian particles

Tian Chen, Xiang Bin Wang, Ting Yu

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Abstract

Thermodynamics of the magnetic-field-coupled Brownian particles is studied. We show that in the presence of the magnetic field, work can be extracted from the reservoir even when the measurement operation and the potential change operation are applied in different spatial directions. In particular, we show that more work can be extracted if the measurements are applied in two different directions simultaneously. In all these cases, we show that the generalized second law involving the measurement information and potential change is satisfied. In addition, we show how the continuous potential change and measurement position affect the work extraction.

Original languageEnglish
Article number022101
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume90
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2014

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