The remote Maxwell demon as energy down-converter
S. Hossenfelder
TL;DR
This paper proposes a remote Maxwell demon model that converts thermal energy into usable energy by transmitting information rather than energy itself, using feedback control to stimulate emission and extract energy from a heat bath.
Contribution
It introduces a novel remote Maxwell demon framework that replaces energy transmission with information processing for energy extraction from thermal environments.
Findings
Estimated energy down-conversion rate
Analyzed efficiency of energy extraction
Demonstrated feasibility of remote feedback control
Abstract
It is demonstrated that Maxwell's demon can be used to allow a machine to extract energy from a heat bath by use of information that is processed by the demon at a remote location. The model proposed here effectively replaces transmission of energy by transmission of information. For that we use a feedback protocol that enables a net gain by stimulating emission in selected fluctuations around thermal equilibrium. We estimate the down conversion rate and the efficiency of energy extraction from the heat bath.
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