Colloquium: The physics of Maxwell's demon and information

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-23

  Maruyama, Koji ^a,b   Nori, Franco ^a,b,c   Vedral, Vlatko ^d,e  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM OPTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MAXWELL'S DEMON; MODERN PHYSICS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; THEORY OF GRAVITY;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 58249119696     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1     Document Type: Article

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