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We will discuss the intimate connection existing between information theory and thermodynamics following its historical development. We will focus on two complementary aspects: 1) the gain of information which we will illustrate with Maxwell's famous demon and 2) the erasure of information summarized by Landauer's principle. We will further present a number of recent single-particle experiments that have for the first time realized the above gedanken experiments in the lab.

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Eric Lutz, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Seminar Room TP 0.03
Contact: Johannes Berg