Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing

by Leff; Harvey

• ISBN13: 9780750307598
• ISBN10: 0750307595
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-13
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This second edition brings under one cover thirty-two reprints - more than half of which are new. Included are seminal works by James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson; historical reviews by Martin Klein and Edward Daub; pivotal contributions by Leo Szilard and Leon Brillouin; linkages with the limits of computation by Rolf Landauer, Charles Bennett and Seth Lloyd; views of the demon using algorithmic information theory by Carleton Caves and Wojciech Zurek; examination of a quantum mechanical Maxwell's demon by Seth Lloyd. There are over 200 additions to the alphabetical and chronological bibliographies. A revised overview outlines the flurry of scholarly activity about Maxwell's demon since publication of the first edition. Evidently Maxwell's demon has become part of the fabric of science and the culture of entropy.

Author Biography

Harvey S Leff is Professor Emeritus of Physics at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California Andrew F Rex is Professor of Physics at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition	ix
Preface to the Second Edition	xii
Acknowledgments and Copyright Information	xiv
Overview	1	(39)
Introduction	2	(1)
The Demon and its Properties	3	(11)
Szilard's Model: Entropy and Information Acquisition	14	(3)
Information Acquisition via Light Signals: A Temporary Resolution	17	(2)
Computers and Erasure of Information: A New Resolution	19	(8)
Foundations of Landauer's Principle	27	(2)
Quantum Mechanics and Maxwell's Demon	29	(3)
Other Aspects of Maxwell's Demon and Computation	32	(8)
Early History and Philosophical Considerations	40	(53)
Kinetic Theory of the Dissipation of Energy	41	(3)
W Thompson
Maxwell's Demon	44	(15)
E E Daub
Maxwell, His Demon, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics	59	(14)
M J Klein
Life, Thermodynamics, and Cybernetics	73	(15)
L Brillouin
Information, Measurement, and Quantum Mechanics	88	(5)
J Rothstein
Smoluchowski Trap Doors and Information Acquisition	93	(54)
Maxwell's Demon, Rectifiers, and the Second Law: Computer Simulation of Smoluchowski's Trapdoor	94	(7)
P A Skordos
W H Zurek
Entropy and Information for an Automated Maxwell's Demon	101	(9)
A Rex
R Larsen
On the Decrease of Entropy in a Thermodynamic System by the Intervention of Intelligent Beings	110	(10)
L Szilard
Maxwell's Demon Cannot Operate: Information and Entropy. I	120	(4)
L Brillouin
Entropy, Information and Szilard's Paradox	124	(13)
J M Jauch
J G Baron
Information Theory and Thermodynamics	137	(10)
O Costa de Beauregard
M Tribus
Information Erasure: Landauer's Principle	147	(31)
Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process	148	(9)
R Landauer
Entropy of Measurement and Erasure: Szilard's Membrane Model Revisited	157	(7)
H S Leff
A F Rex
Heat Generation Required by Information Erasure	164	(5)
K Shizume
Information Erasure	169	(9)
B Piechocinska
Quantum Nuances	178	(59)
Maxwell's Demon, Szilard's Engine and Quantum Measurements	179	(11)
W H Zurek
Keeping the Entropy of Measurement: Szilard Revisited	190	(13)
E Lubkin
Use of Mutual Information to Decrease Entropy: Implications for the Second Law of Thermodynamics	203	(9)
S Lloyd
Quantum-mechanical Maxwell's Demon	212	(9)
S Lloyd
Landauer's Erasure, Error Correction and Entanglement	221	(16)
V Vedral
Algorithmic Information	237	(45)
Information and Entropy	238	(8)
C M Caves
Algorithmic Information and Simplicity in Statistical Physics	246	(18)
R Schack
Algorithmic Randomness, Physical Entropy, Measurements, and the Demon of Choice	264	(18)
W H Zurek
Computation: Thermodynamics and Limits	282	(88)
The Thermodynamics of Computation---A Review	283	(36)
C H Bennett
Computation: A Fundamental Physical View	319	(8)
R Landauer
Notes on the History of Reversible Computation	327	(8)
C H Bennett
The Physical Nature of Information	335	(6)
R Landauer
Minimal Energy Requirements in Communication	341	(5)
R Landauer
Information Physics in Cartoons	346	(6)
C H Bennett
Signal Entropy and the Thermodynamics of Computation	352	(10)
N Gershenfeld
Ultimate Physical Limits to Computation	362	(8)
S Lloyd
Chronological Bibliography with Annotations and Selected Quotations	370	(89)
Alphabetical Bibliography	459	(18)
Index	477