Makoto Izumi

The Izumi--Szilard Engine: Separating Information Erasure from Mechanical Work Extraction

The conventional Szilard engine combines one-molecule work extraction with measurement, memory, feedback, and memory reset. The Izumi--Szilard engine is introduced here to separate these informational operations from the mechanical work-extraction problem. A symmetric coupling al...

The Izumi--Szilard Engine: Separating Information Erasure from Mechanical Work Extraction

The conventional Szilard engine combines one-molecule work extraction with measurement, memory, feedback, and memory reset. The Izumi--Szilard engine is introduced here to separate these informational operations from the mechanical work-extraction problem. A symmetric coupling al...

The Izumi--Szilard Engine: Separating Information Erasure from Mechanical Work Extraction

The conventional Szilard engine combines a one-molecule expansion withmeasurement, memory, and feedback. The ideal isothermal expansion work andthe Landauer bound for resetting an unbiased binary memory both contain thequantity \(k_{\mathrm B}T\ln 2\), but they refer to distinct...