Workshop on Information Engines at the Frontiers of Nanoscale Thermodynamics

Abstract

Synthetic nanoscale machines, like their macromolecular biological counterparts, perform tasks that involve the simultaneous manipulation of energy, information, and matter. In this they are information enginessystems with two inextricably intertwined characters. The first aspect, call it physical, is the one in which the systemseen embedded in a material substrateis driven by, manipulates, stores, and dissipates energy. The second aspect, call it informational, is the one in which the systemseen in terms of its spatial and temporal organizationgenerates, stores, loses, and transforms information. Information engines operate by synergistically balancing both aspects to support a given functionality, such as extracting work from a heat reservoir.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 07, 2020
Accession Number
AD1099037

Entities

People

  • James P. Crutchfield

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Reactions
  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Energy Transfer
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Information Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Materials
  • Proteins
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Thermodynamic Processes
  • Thermodynamics
  • Unsupervised Machine Learning

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  • Systems Analysis and Design