All Shook Up: Fluctuations, Maxwell’s Demon and the Thermodynamics of Computation
The most successful exorcism of Maxwell’s demon is Smoluchowski’s 1912 observation that thermal fluctuations would likely disrupt the operation of any molecular-scale demonic machine. A later tradition sought to exorcise Maxwell’s demon by assessing the entropic cost of the demon’s processing of inf...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2013-10-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/10/4432 |