A friendly guide to exorcising Maxwell's demon
2025/03/10 by A. de Oliveira Junior, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Junior, A. de Oliveira +3 · 4 voices · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #cond-mat.stat-mech #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.07740
arxiv published 2025/03/10 · arxiv updated 2025/08/12
Abstract
The birth, life, and death of Maxwell's demon provoked a profound discussion about the interplay between thermodynamics, computation, and information. Even after its exorcism, the demon continues to inspire a multidisciplinary field. This tutorial offers a comprehensive overview of Maxwell's demon and its enduring influence, bridging classical concepts with modern insights in thermodynamics, information theory, and quantum mechanics.
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- Maxwell’s demon was on holiday, just catching up on recent updates… until it thought, ‘Hmmm, I should write a tutorial!'
Very happy to share "a friendly guide to exorcising Maxwell's demon" (arxiv.or [bsky, 4 points, 2 comments]
- You suggest the using two bits to store the state of the particles approaching the gate instead of $n$ bits for all of the particles. One problem is this presumes you know a particle is approaching th [stackexchange, 4 points]
- (13/14) Last but not least a shout out to @itsmealeale.bsky.social for the most well written and aesthetically pleasing work of the year, his beautiful review on the Maxwell's Demon paradox from theor [bsky, 2 points, 1 comments]
- A friendly guide to exorcising Maxwell's demon
A. de Oliveira Junior, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Rafael Chaves
arxiv.org/abs/2503.07740 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
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