Maxwell's Demon Can Extract Energy From Hidden Memories, Study Finds
Physicists led by Clemens Bechinger at the University of Konstanz built a laser‑trapped glass‑bead system in a micellar liquid and used timed position measurements to extract work. By exploiting hidden memory in the liquid, they achieved up to three times the theoretical work limit for a comparable memoryless system.
Source: Maxwell's Demon Can Extract Energy From Hidden Memories, Study Finds — ScienceAlert
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