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Claim · claim:uniform-thermal-drives-info

Thermal energy at uniform temperature —drives→ Information-to-work conversion

The atlas records this claim as demonstrated: a thermal energy at uniform temperature drives information-to-work conversion under the conditions below.

demonstratedK4 · experimentally observedledger thermal → mechanical · loss to thermalno record-level review date

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Conditions

  • feedback control based on measurement of a fluctuating particle; the work extracted is bounded by kT·ln2 per bit of information used
regime: liquid · room temperature

Evidence · 1

  1. [1]
    S. Toyabe et al.. Experimental demonstration of information-to-energy conversion and validation of the generalized Jarzynski equality (2010)
    Nature Physics 6, 988–992 · doi:10.1038/nphys1821 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record

Matrix cells this relation feeds

D = disequilibrium row · C = coupling family column. A cell reads the state of the atlas for that pair.

Notes

Not a violation of the second law — the measurement and erasure of the record cost at least the work extracted.

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