We introduce and realize demons that follow a customary gambling strategy to stop a
nonequilibrium process at stochastic times. We derive second-law-like inequalities for the …

Finding optimal survival strategies of living systems embedded in fluctuating environments
generally involves a balance between phenotypic diversification and sensing. If we neglect …

We derive a universal thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) that applies to an arbitrary
observable in a general Markovian system. The generality of our result allows us to make …

Quantum coherence has been shown to impact the operational capabilities of quantum
systems performing thermodynamic tasks in a significant way, and yet the possibility of …

We formulate an adaptive version of Kelly's horse model in which the gambler learns from
past race results using Bayesian inference. We characterize the cost of this gambling …

We obtain general inequalities constraining the difference between the average of an
arbitrary function of a phenotypic trait, which includes the fitness landscape of the trait itself …

We study a generalization of Kelly's horse model to situations where gambling on horses
other than the winning horse does not lead to a complete loss of the investment. In such …

Organisms that grow and survive in uncertain environments may need to change their
physiological state as the environment changes. When the environment is uncertain, one …

Information theory is a well-established method for the study of many phenomena and more
than 70 years after Claude Shannon first described it in A Mathematical Theory of …

Cells face various allocation problems demanding decisions on how to distribute their finite
resources. They decide which enzymes to produce at what quantity, but also where to …