Waiting for Landauer

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2011.05.002zbMath1239.82011OpenAlexW2051404975MaRDI QIDQ426017

John D. Norton

Publication date: 10 June 2012

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/12539/1/JDN2011_1.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

entropythermodynamicsfluctuationsMaxwell's demonLandauer's principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

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