Transfer of Information in Parrondo’s Games
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We study the relation between the discrete-time version of the flashing ratchet known as Parrondo’s games and a compression technique used very recently with thermal ratchets for evaluating the transfer of information— negentropy — between the Brownian particle and the source of fluctuations. We present some results concerning different versions of Parrondo’s games showing, for each case, a good qualitative agreement between the gain and the variation of the entropy.
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