Tag: Landauer's principle

Maxwell's Demon: Can a Machine Run on Information?Can a demon sorting fast molecules beat the second law? Szilard's engine reduces the question to one molecule, and Landauer's principle settles it: erasing a bit costs kT ln 2 of heat.PhysicsPhysics ColumnsHigh school / generalthermodynamics entropy information Landauer's principle thought experiments~25 min

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