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All Shook Up: Fluctuations, Maxwell's Demon and the Thermodynamics of Computation
2013
Entropy
The most successful exorcism of Maxwell's demon is Smoluchowski's 1912 observation that thermal fluctuations would likely disrupt the operation of any molecular-scale demonic machine. A later tradition sought to exorcise Maxwell's demon by assessing the entropic cost of the demon's processing of information. This later tradition fails since these same thermal fluctuations invalidate the molecular-scale manipulations upon which the thermodynamics of computation is based. A new argument
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