Memory-aware feedback enhances power in active information engines
Sehoon Bahng, Jae Sung Lee, and Cheol-Min Ghim

TL;DR
This paper investigates how memory effects in active baths influence the performance of feedback-controlled information engines, proposing memory-preserving protocols that outperform conventional methods in such nonequilibrium environments.
Contribution
It introduces a novel class of feedback protocols that retain bath memory, optimizing work and power in active media, extending stochastic thermodynamics to include memory effects.
Findings
Memory-preserving feedback improves engine performance in active baths.
Intermediate feedback gains outperform full-shift resetting in active environments.
Bath memory, measurement noise, and feedback gain critically influence engine efficiency.
Abstract
We study an information engine operating in an active bath, where a Brownian particle confined in a harmonic trap undergoes feedback-driven displacement cycles. Unlike thermal environments, active baths exhibit temporally correlated fluctuations, introducing memory effects that challenge conventional feedback strategies. Extending the framework of stochastic thermodynamics to account for such memory, we analyze a feedback protocol that periodically shifts the potential minimum based on noisy measurements of the particle's position. We show that conventional feedback schemes, optimized for memoryless thermal baths, can degrade performance in active media due to the disruption of bath-particle memory by abrupt resetting. To overcome this degradation, we introduce a class of memory-preserving feedback protocols that partially retain the covariance between the particle's displacement and…
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