학술논문

Energy versus information based estimations of dissipation using a pair of magnetic colloidal particles
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180604 (2014)
Subject
Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
Language
Abstract
Using the framework of stochastic thermodynamics, we present an experimental study of a doublet of magnetic colloidal particles which is manipulated by a time-dependent magnetic field. Due to hydrodynamic interactions, each bead experiences a state-dependent friction, which we characterize using a hydrodynamic model. In this work, we compare two estimates of the dissipation in this system: the first one is energy based since it relies on the measured interaction potential, while the second one is information based since it uses only the information content of the trajectories. While the latter only offers a lower bound of the former, we find it to be simple to implement and of general applicability to more complex systems.
Comment: Main text: 5 pages, 4 figures. Supplementary material: 5 pages, 5 figures