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Volume 148, Number 4, November 2024
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| Article Number | 41002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Statistical physics and networks | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ad8bf0 | |
| Published online | 19 November 2024 | |
Inertial effects in discrete sampling information engines
Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique - F-69342 Lyon, France
Received: 7 June 2024
Accepted: 28 October 2024
We describe an experiment on an underdamped mechanical oscillator used as an information engine. The system is equivalent to an inertial Brownian particle confined in a harmonic potential whose center is controlled by a feedback protocol which measures the particle position at a specific sampling frequency 
. Several feedback protocols are applied and the power generated by the engine is measured as a function of the oscillator parameters and the sampling frequency. The optimal parameters are then determined. The results are compared to the theoretical predictions and numerical simulations on overdamped systems. We highlight the specific effects of inertia, which can be used to increase the amount of power extracted by the engine. In the regime of large τ, we show that the produced work has a tight bound determined by information theories.
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