All shook up: fluctuations, Maxwell's demon and the thermodynamics of computation

DOI10.3390/E15104432MaRDI QIDQ280654zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John D. Norton

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/e15104432

zbMATH Keywords

entropyfluctuationscomputationMaxwell's demonthermodynamicsLandauer's principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Molecular physics (81V55) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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• Exorcist XIV: the wrath of Maxwell's demon. I: From Maxwell to Szilard
• EXORCIST XIV: the wrath of Maxwell's demon. II: From Szilard to Landauer and beyond
• Maxwell's demon. I: A thermodynamic exorcism
• Information-thermodynamics link revisited
• Identifying functional thermodynamics in autonomous Maxwellian ratchets
• The impossible process: Thermodynamic reversibility
• Brownian computation is thermodynamically irreversible

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