Physical Transformation AtlasPTA
Coupling family · coupling:fluctuation-driven

Fluctuation / information-driven

Work extracted by exploiting fluctuations or ground-state forces, always paid for elsewhere.

Quantum transportalso: Brownian ratchet, Maxwell demon, Casimir, fluctuation theorem

Atlas record: 2 claims reference this coupling family — 2 established.

Explorerelations · matrix context · sources · cite

2claims0enumerated routes0routes with complete-composition evidence0candidate routes not searched4cited sources

Relations

member of · 2
Casimir effect—member of→Fluctuation / information-drivenestablished
Information-to-work conversion—member of→Fluctuation / information-drivenestablished

Matrix context

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

D.01 Temperature gradientD.02 Pressure gradientD.03 Concentration gradientD.04 Salinity gradientD.05 Chemical potential differenceD.06 Electric potential differenceD.07 Changing magnetic fluxD.08 Mechanical stress or strainD.09 Mechanical vibrationD.10 Bulk fluid flowD.11 Incident radiation fluxD.12 Radiative imbalance with the skyD.13 Spin accumulationD.14 Metastable phaseD.15 Surface energy differenceD.16 Capillary pressureD.17 Humidity gradientD.18 Osmotic pressure differenceD.19 Gravitational potential differenceD.20 Nuclear binding-energy differenceD.21 Thermal energy at uniform temperatureD.22 Quantum vacuum fluctuationsD.23 Acoustic fieldD.24 Temporal temperature changeD.25 Changing electric field

Cited sources · 4

  1. [1]
    S. K. Lamoreaux. Demonstration of the Casimir force in the 0.6 to 6 μm range (1997)
    Physical Review Letters 78, 5 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.5 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record
  2. [2]
    M. Bordag, U. Mohideen, V. M. Mostepanenko. New developments in the Casimir effect (2001)
    Physics Reports 353, 1–205 · doi:10.1016/S0370-1573(01)00015-1 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record
  3. [3]
    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
  4. [4]
    J. M. R. Parrondo, J. M. Horowitz, T. Sagawa. Thermodynamics of information (2015)
    Nature Physics 11, 131–139 · doi:10.1038/nphys3230 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record

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Physical Transformation Atlas (2026). entity coupling:fluctuation-driven: Fluctuation / information-driven. Dataset revision rbfbfcbb70e57 (hash of the canonical data). https://physical-transformation-atlas.wldud5192.workers.dev/e/coupling/fluctuation-driven

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