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Colloquium: The physics of Maxwell's demon and information

Koji Maruyama
(
)
,
Franco Nori
(
- CREST, Japan Sci. Tech. Corp. and
- ERATO, JST, Tokyo
)
,
Vlatko Vedral
(
- Leeds U. and
- Singapore Natl. U.
)

Jan, 2009

22 pages

Published in:

Rev.Mod.Phys. 81 (2009) 1-23

e-Print:

0707.3400 [physics.hist-ph]

DOI:

10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1

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Abstract: (APS)

Maxwell’s demon was born in 1867 and still thrives in modern physics. He plays important roles in clarifying the connections between two theories: thermodynamics and information. Here the history of the demon and a variety of interesting consequences of the second law of thermodynamics are presented, mainly in quantum mechanics, but also in the theory of gravity. Also highlighted are some of the recent work that explores the role of information, illuminated by Maxwell’s demon, in the arena of quantum-information theory.

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