Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics inspired by modern information theory (Q280742)
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Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics inspired by modern information theory (English)
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10 May 2016
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Summary: A collection of recent papers revisit how to quantify the relationship between information and work in the light of modern information theory, so-called single-shot information theory. This is an introduction to those papers, from the perspective of the author. Many of the results may be viewed as a quantification of how much work a generalized Maxwell's daemon can extract as a function of its extra information. These expressions do not in general involve the Shannon/von Neumann entropy but rather quantities from single-shot information theory. In a limit of large systems composed of many identical and independent parts the Shannon/von Neumann entropy is recovered.
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non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
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single-shot information theory
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Maxwell's daemon
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