Maxwells Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing
by Harvey Leff, Andrew F. Rex
Category: Mathematics

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