Phase Space Portraits of an Unresolved Gravitational Maxwell Demon

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 441-462

  Sheehan, D P ^a   Glick, J ^a   Duncan, T ^b   Langton, J A ^a   Gagliardi, M J ^a   Tobe, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maxwell demon; Nonequilibrium; Second law; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036290048     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014813413305     Document Type: Article

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