Fig. 3

Impact of finite precision readout of the mechanical amplitude. Parameters: δβ = 2, T = 80 K, ħω₀ = 1.2k_BT, Ω/2π = 1 kHz, γ/Ω = 5. 2g_m|β₀| was kept constant (2g_m|β₀|/2π = 600 GHz) whereas increasing g_m, such that each point corresponds to the same mean reduced entropy production \(\left\langle {\sigma \left[ {{\vec{\mathrm \Sigma }}} \right]} \right\rangle _{{\vec{\mathrm \Sigma }}}\). Left axis, blue dots: Deviation from measured JE. Right axis, orange squares: Mutual information I[β_f, β^M]. Orange dashed line: Shannon’s entropy of the final distribution of mechanical states S_Sh[β_f] (see text). The error bars represent the standard error of the mean