Maxwell's Demon : : Entropy, Information, Computing /

Maxwell's Demon : : Entropy, Information, Computing / / ed. by Andrew F. Rex, Harvey S. Leff.

About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and comput...

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Leff, Harvey S.,
Rex, Andrew F.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Series in Physics ; 45
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Acknowledgments and Copyright Information --   |t CHAPTER 1. Overview --   |t CHAPTER 2. Historical and Philosophical Considerations --   |t CHAPTER 3. Maxwell's Demon and Information Acquisition --   |t CHAPTER 4. Maxwell's Demon, Information Erasure, and Computing --   |t Chronological Bibliography with Annotations and Selected Quotations --   |t Alphabetical Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science--and linkages have been established between Maxwell's demon and each of these disciplines. The demon's seductive quality makes it appealing to physical scientists, engineers, computer scientists, biologists, psychologists, and historians and philosophers of science. Until now its important source material has been scattered throughout diverse journals.This book brings under one cover twenty-five reprints, including seminal works by Maxwell and William Thomson; historical reviews by Martin Klein, Edward Daub, and Peter Heimann; information theoretic contributions by Leo Szilard, Leon Brillouin, Dennis Gabor, and Jerome Rothstein; and innovations by Rolf Landauer and Charles Bennett illustrating linkages with the limits of computation. An introductory chapter summarizes the demon's life, from Maxwell's illustration of the second law's statistical nature to the most recent "exorcism" of the demon based on a need periodically to erase its memory. An annotated chronological bibliography is included.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. 
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650 0 |a Thermodynamics. 
650 7 |a SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics.  |2 bisacsh 
653 |a Adiabatic process. 
653 |a Automaton. 
653 |a Available energy (particle collision). 
653 |a Billiard-ball computer. 
653 |a Black hole information paradox. 
653 |a Black hole thermodynamics. 
653 |a Black-body radiation. 
653 |a Boltzmann's entropy formula. 
653 |a Boyle's law. 
653 |a Calculation. 
653 |a Carnot's theorem (thermodynamics). 
653 |a Catalysis. 
653 |a Chaos theory. 
653 |a Computation. 
653 |a Copying. 
653 |a Creation and annihilation operators. 
653 |a Digital physics. 
653 |a Dissipation. 
653 |a Distribution law. 
653 |a Domain wall. 
653 |a EPR paradox. 
653 |a Energy level. 
653 |a Entropy of mixing. 
653 |a Entropy. 
653 |a Exchange interaction. 
653 |a Expectation value (quantum mechanics). 
653 |a Extrapolation. 
653 |a Fair coin. 
653 |a Fermi–Dirac statistics. 
653 |a Gibbs free energy. 
653 |a Gibbs paradox. 
653 |a Guessing. 
653 |a Halting problem. 
653 |a Hamiltonian mechanics. 
653 |a Heat engine. 
653 |a Heat. 
653 |a Helmholtz free energy. 
653 |a Ideal gas. 
653 |a Idealization. 
653 |a Information theory. 
653 |a Instant. 
653 |a Internal energy. 
653 |a Irreversible process. 
653 |a James Prescott Joule. 
653 |a Johnson–Nyquist noise. 
653 |a Kinetic theory of gases. 
653 |a Laws of thermodynamics. 
653 |a Least squares. 
653 |a Loschmidt's paradox. 
653 |a Ludwig Boltzmann. 
653 |a Maxwell's demon. 
653 |a Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. 
653 |a Mean free path. 
653 |a Measurement. 
653 |a Mechanical equivalent of heat. 
653 |a Microscopic reversibility. 
653 |a Molecule. 
653 |a Negative temperature. 
653 |a Negentropy. 
653 |a Newton's law of universal gravitation. 
653 |a Nitrous oxide. 
653 |a Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. 
653 |a Old quantum theory. 
653 |a Particle in a box. 
653 |a Perpetual motion. 
653 |a Photon. 
653 |a Probability. 
653 |a Quantity. 
653 |a Quantum limit. 
653 |a Quantum mechanics. 
653 |a Rectangular potential barrier. 
653 |a Result. 
653 |a Reversible computing. 
653 |a Reversible process (thermodynamics). 
653 |a Richard Feynman. 
653 |a Rolf Landauer. 
653 |a Rudolf Clausius. 
653 |a Scattering. 
653 |a Schrödinger equation. 
653 |a Second law of thermodynamics. 
653 |a Self-information. 
653 |a Spontaneous process. 
653 |a Standard state. 
653 |a Statistical mechanics. 
653 |a Superselection. 
653 |a Temperature. 
653 |a Theory of heat. 
653 |a Theory. 
653 |a Thermally isolated system. 
653 |a Thermodynamic equilibrium. 
653 |a Thermodynamic system. 
653 |a Thermodynamics. 
653 |a Thought experiment. 
653 |a Turing machine. 
653 |a Ultimate fate of the universe. 
653 |a Uncertainty principle. 
653 |a Unitarity (physics). 
653 |a Van der Waals force. 
653 |a Wave function collapse. 
653 |a Work output. 
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