The peculiar status of the second law of thermodynamics and the quest for its violation
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Publication:2436229
DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.05.004zbMath1281.80001arXiv1101.5056MaRDI QIDQ2436229
Publication date: 21 February 2014
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/1101.5056
contingency; second law of thermodynamics; Maxwell's demon; Landauer's principle; necessity; capacitor; thermionic emission; violation; n-p junction; Szilard's engine
80A10: Classical and relativistic thermodynamics
94A17: Measures of information, entropy
82B30: Statistical thermodynamics
00A79: Physics
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