The (absence of a) relationship between thermodynamic and logical reversibility

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2004.11.006zbMath1222.81152arXivphysics/0406137OpenAlexW2118875018MaRDI QIDQ640236

Owen J. E. Maroney

Publication date: 17 October 2011

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: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0406137

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamicsinformationstatistical mechanicscomputationMaxwell's demonLandauer's principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Substructural logics (including relevance, entailment, linear logic, Lambek calculus, BCK and BCI logics) (03B47) Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P94)

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