Colloquium: The physics of Maxwell’s demon and information

DOI10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1zbMath1205.82005arXiv0707.3400WikidataQ56536150 ScholiaQ56536150MaRDI QIDQ3077044

Vlatko Vedral, Franco Nori, Koji Maruyama

Publication date: 21 February 2011

Published in: Reviews of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3400

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-02) Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

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