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Maxwell’s Demon in Quantum Mechanics [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 Maxwell’s Demon is a thought experiment devised by J. C. Maxwell in 1867 in order to show that the Second Law of thermodynamics is not universal, since it has a counter-example. Since the Second Law is taken by many to provide an arrow of time, the
Orly Shenker +2 more
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N-States Continuous Maxwell Demon [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 Maxwell’s demon is a famous thought experiment and a paradigm of the thermodynamics of information. It is related to Szilard’s engine, a two-state information-to-work conversion device in which the demon performs single measurements and extracts work ...
Felix Ritort, Paul Raux, Ritort Felix
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Hidden Dissipation and Irreversibility in Maxwell’s Demon [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 Maxwell’s demon is an entity in a 150-year-old thought experiment that paradoxically appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics by reducing entropy without doing work.
Paul W. Fontana
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A Programmable Mechanical Maxwell’s Demon [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 We introduce and investigate a simple and explicitly mechanical model of Maxwell’s demon—a device that interacts with a memory register (a stream of bits), a thermal reservoir (an ideal gas) and a work reservoir (a mass that can be lifted or ...
Zhiyue Lu, Christopher Jarzynski
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Information-to-work conversion by Maxwell’s demon in a superconducting circuit quantum electrodynamical system [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Maxwell’s demon is a hypothetical character that uses information about a system to reduce its entropy, highlighting the link between information and thermodynamic entropies. Here the authors experimentally realise a Maxwell's demon controlling a quantum
Y. Masuyama +8 more
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Landauer’s Principle in a Quantum Szilard Engine without Maxwell’s Demon [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 Quantum Szilard engine constitutes an adequate interplay of thermodynamics, information theory and quantum mechanics. Szilard engines are in general operated by a Maxwell’s Demon where Landauer’s principle resolves the apparent paradoxes ...
Alhun Aydin +2 more
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Measurement-Based Quantum Thermal Machines with Feedback Control [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 We investigated coupled-qubit-based thermal machines powered by quantum measurements and feedback. We considered two different versions of the machine: (1) a quantum Maxwell’s demon, where the coupled-qubit system is connected to a detachable single ...
Bibek Bhandari +3 more
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All Shook Up: Fluctuations, Maxwell’s Demon and the Thermodynamics of Computation
Entropy, 2013 The most successful exorcism of Maxwell’s demon is Smoluchowski’s 1912 observation that thermal fluctuations would likely disrupt the operation of any molecular-scale demonic machine.
John D Norton, Norton John D
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Maxwell’s Demon and the Problem of Observers in General Relativity [PDF]
Entropy, 2018 The fact that real dissipative (entropy producing) processes may be detected by non-comoving observers (tilted), in systems that appear to be isentropic for comoving observers, in general relativity, is explained in terms of the information theory ...
Luis Herrera
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Conditioning, Correlation and Entropy Generation in Maxwell’s Demon
Entropy, 2013 Maxwell’s Demon conspires to use information about the state of a confined molecule in a Szilard engine (randomly frozen into a state subspace by his own actions) to derive work from a single-temperature heat bath.
Neal Anderson, Anderson Neal G
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