On the information to work conversion: a view from ancient fluctuation-dissipation relations

TL;DR

This paper explores how generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations influence the conversion of information into work, highlighting the role of specific insider information in determining success and limits.

Contribution

It reveals that the effectiveness and bounds of information-to-work conversion depend on particular insider information, not just formal information.

Findings

Success of information-to-work conversion is governed by insider information.

Bounds of conversion are determined by specific informational details.

Generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations underpin these results.

Abstract

The "generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations", which had anticipated the "fluctuation theorems" fifteen years before, are applied to presently popular "information to useful work conversion" to demonstrate that its success and bounds are determined by a specific "insider" information rather than formal one