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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 116, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.050401
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EPSRC EP/K034480/1]
- Controlled Quantum Dynamics DTC
- EU Collaborative Project TherMiQ [618074]
- Rita Levi-Montalcini fellowship of MIUR
- EPSRC
- Royal Society
- John Templeton Foundation
- Leverhulme Trust
- Oxford Martin School
- NRF (Singapore)
- MoE (Singapore)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1102980] Funding Source: researchfish
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We report an experimental realization of Maxwell's demon in a photonic setup. We show that a measurement at the few-photons level followed by a feed-forward operation allows the extraction of work from intense thermal light into an electric circuit. The interpretation of the experiment stimulates the derivation of an equality relating work extraction to information acquired by measurement. We derive a bound using this relation and show that it is in agreement with the experimental results. Our work puts forward photonic systems as a platform for experiments related to information in thermodynamics.
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