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

  1. 502 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

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

About this book

Over 130 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the scope of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science, and links have been established between Maxwell's demon and each of

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Yes, you can access Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing by Harvey Leff, Andrew F. Rex, Harvey Leff,Andrew F. Rex in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Mathematics & Mathematics General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9781138429826
eBook ISBN
9781420033991

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface to the First Edition
  8. Preface to the Second Edition
  9. Acknowledgments and Copyright Information
  10. 1: Overview
  11. 2: Early History and Philosophical Considerations
  12. 3: Smoluchowski Trap Doors and Information Acquisition
  13. 4: Information Erasure: Landauer’s Principle
  14. 5: Quantum Nuances
  15. 6: Algorithmic Information
  16. 7: Computation: Thermodynamics and Limits
  17. Chronological Bibliography with Annotations and Selected Quotations
  18. Alphabetical Bibliography