Maxwell’s Demon Is Foiled by the Entropy Cost of Measurement, Not Erasure
I dispute the conventional claim that the second law of thermodynamics is saved from a “Maxwell’s demon” by the entropy cost of information erasure and show that instead it is measurement that incurs the entropy cost. Thus, Brillouin, who identified measurement as savior of the second law, was essen...
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MDPI AG
2025-05-01
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