Ueda, Masahito

Thursday March 7, 2013
Time: 16:45
Place: HIT H 42
Host: Atac Imamoglu

Information Thermodynamics and Fluctuation Theorems

Masahito Ueda
Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo

The second law of thermodynamics presupposes a clear-cut distinction between the controllable and uncontrollable degrees of freedom by means of macroscopic operations. The cutting-edge technologies in quantum information and nanoscience seem to require us to abondon such a working hypothesis in favor of the distinction between the accessible and inaccessible degrees of freedom. In this talk, I will talk about the fundamental equalities and inequalities describing feedback-controlled processes together with the related new results on fluctuation theorems.