Transport properties and full counting statistics of electrons in double quantum dots operated by Maxwell’s demon

Sammanfattning: During recent years, Maxwell’s demon has regained interest in the work of understanding the connection between thermodynamics and information theory. This thesis presents transport properties of electrons in a double quantum dot system operated by Maxwell’s demon. The demon transports electrons from a lower to higher chemical potential through a pump-like scheme without performing any net work on the electrons. To describe and simulate the dynamics of the system, we use rate equations, full counting statistics, and a Monte Carlo method. We observe that the implementation of the demon works, and that the three approaches give the same results.