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Maxwell’s demon in the quantum-Zeno regime and beyond
New Journal of Physics, 2018 The long-standing paradigm of Maxwell’s demon is till nowadays a frequently investigated issue, which still provides interesting insights into basic physical questions.
G Engelhardt, G Schaller
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The simplicity of physical laws
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 957-987, December 2025.Abstract Physical laws are strikingly simple, yet there is no a priori reason for them to be so. I propose that nomic realists—Humeans and non‐Humeans—should recognize simplicity as a fundamental epistemic guide for discovering and evaluating candidate physical laws.
Eddy Keming Chen
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Electrical Maxwell demon and Szilard engine utilizing Johnson noise, measurement, logic and control. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 We introduce a purely electrical version of Maxwell's demon which does not involve mechanically moving parts such as trapdoors, etc. It consists of a capacitor, resistors, amplifiers, logic circuitry and electronically controlled switches and uses ...
Laszlo Bela Kish, Claes-Göran Granqvist
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Modeling Maxwell's demon with a microcanonical Szilard engine
, 2011 Following recent work by Marathe and Parrondo [PRL, 104, 245704 (2010)], we construct a classical Hamiltonian system whose energy is reduced during the adiabatic cycling of external parameters, when initial conditions are sampled microcanonically ...
C. B. P. Finn +6 more
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Modeling the Formation of Electric and Magnetic Fields in Dust Devils
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 21, 16 November 2025.Abstract Dust devils are a weather phenomenon in which lofted particles become charged through triboelectrification, generating electromagnetic fields. These pose hazards for electronic equipment and affect biological systems. We present a new methodology for simulating the formation of electromagnetic fields within and near dust devils.
D. P. Reid, K. L. Aplin, N. A. Teanby
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Nonlinear bosonic Maxwell’s demon by coupling to qubits
Communications PhysicsThe concept of Maxwell’s demon, proposed in classical physics as a means to extract work from a thermodynamics system beyond the constraints set by the second law of thermodynamics, has since been extended to modern quantum physics.
Atirach Ritboon, Radim Filip
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Axiomatic Information Thermodynamics
Entropy, 2018 We present an axiomatic framework for thermodynamics that incorporates information as a fundamental concept. The axioms describe both ordinary thermodynamic processes and those in which information is acquired, used and erased, as in the operation of ...
Austin Hulse +2 more
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Membrane Proteins as Maxwell’s Demons and Their Significance for P Systems [PDF]
, 2008 The aim of these notes is to contribute to the dialog between P systems and Biological Sciences focussing on membrane proteins involved either in iron transport inside the bacterial cells or in elimination outside the bacterial cells of substances ...
Ardelean, Ioan I. +2 more
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Thermoelectric Processes of Quantum Normal‐Superconductor Interfaces
Annalen der Physik, Volume 537, Issue 11, November 2025.Recent advances on using mesoscopic normal‐superconductor junctions for the thermoelectric effect is reviewed. A theoretical framework is presented for multiterminal configurations exploiting properties characterised by the interplay of the system reduced dimensionality and superconducting correlations.
Liliana Arrachea +5 more
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Limits of Landauer’s principle and of the second law of thermodynamics
EntropieSince 1857, the second law of thermodynamics has faced the challenge of Maxwell’s imagined demon. The widely accepted response to this challenge suggests that the demon requires a bit of information to work, and according to Landauer’s principle ...
Jean Argouarc’h
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