| Budget Amount *help |
¥40,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥31,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥7,410,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,710,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥15,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,480,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥17,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,110,000)
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| Research Abstract |
We succeeded to demonstrate the first realization of a Szilard-type Maxwell’s demon. We performed a nonequilibrium feedback manipulation of a Brownian particle based on information about its location achieves information-energy conversion. Moreover, a new nonequilibrium equality concerning the feedback control has been shown to hold. Furthermore, we realized self-propelling Janus particles by defocused laser irradiation. We found that the motion is caused by self-thermophoresis: i.e. migration due to a local temperature gradient induced by laser heating at the metal coated side of the Janus particle.
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