The Szilard engine revisited: Entropy, macroscopic randomness, and symmetry breaking phase transitions

Chaos

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 725-733

  Parrondo, Juan M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 0035457709     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1388006     Document Type: Article

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