The Simplest Exorcism of Maxwell's Demon: The Quantum Version

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Norton describes how a Maxwell’s demon can be exorcised merely by considerations of the conservation of phase volume in classical physics. This exorcism is generalized here to quantum physics.

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Maxwell's Demon Does Not Compute.John D. Norton - 2018 - In Michael E. Cuffaro & Samuel C. Fletcher (eds.), Physical Perspectives on Computation, Computational Perspectives on Physics. Cambridge University Press.

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