%0 Generic %1 citeulike:1455920 %A Jones, Roger D. %A Redsun, Sven G. %A Frye, Roger E. %D 2004 %K entropy information %T Information Flow and Computation in the Maxwell Demon Problem %U http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0401002v1 %X In this paper we examine the Maxwell Demon problem from an information theoretic and computational point-of-view. In particular we calculate the required capacity of a communication channel that transports information to and from the Demon. Equivalently, this is the number of bits required to store the information on a computer tape. We show that, in a simple model for the Maxwell Demon, the entropy of the universe increases by at least an amount eta=0.83999552 bits per particle in going from unsorted to sorted particles and by an amount eta*=2.37314 in going from one sorted state to another sorted state.

@misc{citeulike:1455920, abstract = {In this paper we examine the Maxwell Demon problem from an information theoretic and computational point-of-view. In particular we calculate the required capacity of a communication channel that transports information to and from the Demon. Equivalently, this is the number of bits required to store the information on a computer tape. We show that, in a simple model for the Maxwell Demon, the entropy of the universe increases by at least an amount eta=0.83999552 bits per particle in going from unsorted to sorted particles and by an amount eta*=2.37314 in going from one sorted state to another sorted state.}, added-at = {2007-08-18T13:22:24.000+0200}, author = {Jones, Roger D. and Redsun, Sven G. and Frye, Roger E.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28c9764d5f9d7ec599c070c4571b4e9ad/a_olympia}, citeulike-article-id = {1455920}, description = {citeulike}, eprint = {physics/0401002v1}, interhash = {1d9fe3e40380a834de19402b8cf5c479}, intrahash = {8c9764d5f9d7ec599c070c4571b4e9ad}, keywords = {entropy information}, month = Jan, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2007-08-18T13:22:25.000+0200}, title = {Information Flow and Computation in the Maxwell Demon Problem}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0401002v1}, year = 2004 }