Maxwell's demon and the thermodynamics of computation
| dc.creator | Bub, J. | |
| dc.date | 2002-03-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:03:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:03:47Z | |
| dc.description | It is generally accepted, following Landauer and Bennett, that the process of measurement involves no minimum entropy cost, but the erasure of information in resetting the memory register of a computer to zero requires dissipating heat into the environment. This thesis has been challenged recently in a two-part article by Earman and Norton. I review some relevant observations in the thermodynamics of computation and argue that Earman and Norton are mistaken: there is in principle no entropy cost to the acquisition of information, but the destruction of information does involve an irreducible entropy cost. | |
| dc.description | 13 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0203017 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0203017 | |
| dc.identifier | Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 32, 569-579 (2001) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/90073 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | Maxwell's demon and the thermodynamics of computation | |
| dc.type | text |