The Szilard engine (SZE) is the quintessence of Maxwell's demon, which can extract the work from a heat bath by utilizing information. We present the first complete quantum analysis of the SZE, and derive an analytic expression of the quantum-mechanical work performed by a quantum SZE containing an arbitrary number of molecules, where it is crucial to regard the process of insertion or removal of a wall as a legitimate thermodynamic process. We find that more (less) work can be extracted from the bosonic (fermionic) SZE due to the indistinguishability of identical particles. © 2011 American Physical Society.
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Kim, S. W., Sagawa, T., De Liberato, S., & Ueda, M. (2011). Quantum szilard engine. Physical Review Letters, 106(7). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.070401
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