Maxwell's demon and the thermodynamics of computation

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00023-5zbMath1222.82018arXivquant-ph/0203017MaRDI QIDQ720453

Jeffrey Bub

Publication date: 15 October 2011

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/quant-ph/0203017

zbMATH Keywords

informationmeasurementMaxwell's demonthermodynamics of computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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