Work and information processing in a solvable model of Maxwell's demon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 11641-11645

  Mandal, Dibyendu ^a   Jarzynski, Christopher ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Landauer's principle; Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FORCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAXWELL DEMON; MODEL; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TORQUE; VELOCITY; WORK; WRITING;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICS; THERMODYNAMICS; WORK;

EID: 84863904736     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204263109     Document Type: Article

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