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An explanation for the Landauer's principle
Has anyone understood the Landauer's principle? What is the current status?
In specific, is there a theoretical derivation of the Landauer's Principle?(not the heuristic one based on Salizard's ...
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Do laws of thermodynamics have a place in Theory of Everything? [closed]
I am having a difficulty understanding why second law of thermodynamics is still a valid universally accepted concept. I understand it works on paper for describing isolated heat systems. However, I ...
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Information Loss in annihilation
The concept of information loss is usually discussed with respect to a black hole. My understanding is that whatever matter you put into the black hole, it has only 3 "hairs" and so one doesn't know, ...
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Entropy: two explanations for the same quantity?
I studied thermodynamics and I saw the following definition for entropy:
$$
\Delta S = \int_1^2 \frac{\text{d}Q}{T}
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that we use to calculate $\Delta S$ for different types of transformations.
In ...
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What is the relationship between Energy, Entropy, and Information?
What is the relationship between Energy, Entropy, and Information?
I read this - What Is Energy? Where did it come from? - and the top answer says that 'energy' is an abstract number that is a ...
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Wasn't the Hawking Paradox solved by Einstein?
I just watched a BBC Horizon episode where they talked about the Hawking Paradox. They mentioned a controversy about information being lost but I couldn't get my head around this.
Black hole ...
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About Susskind's claim “information is indestructible”
I really can't understand what Leonard Susskind means when he says that information is indestructible.
Is that information really recoverable?
He himself said that entropy is hidden information. ...
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Confusion regarding entropy, reference papers request
1.a In paragraph at Wikipedia/Entropy it is stated:
This is because energy supplied at a high temperature (i.e. with low entropy)
tends to be more useful than the same amount of energy
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Reference paper to support information — energy relation ($kT \ln2 \rm\frac{J}{bit}$)
In answer to Maxwell's Demon Constant (Information-Energy equivalence) there is stated that one bit of information allows to perform $kT \cdot \ln2$ Joules of work. Which paper supports the ...
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Ignorance in statistical mechanics
Consider this penny on my desc. It is a particular piece of metal,
well described by statistical mechanics, which assigns to it a state,
namely the density matrix $\rho_0=\frac{1}{Z}e^{-\beta H}$ ...
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Are information conservation and energy conservation related?
as evident from the title, are both, conservation of energy and conservation of information two sides of the same coin??
Is there something more to the hypothesis of hawking's radiation other than ...
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Maxwell's Demon bug, trapdoor space and time
What about the size of the door (space) and how long has it to be opened (time)?
I think Maxwell's demon would have a problem with space, if the door is too wide (more than one particle size), then ...
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Does entropy measure extractable work?
Entropy has two definitions, which come from two different branches of science: thermodynamics and information theory. Yet, they both are thought to agree. Is it true?
Entropy, as seen from ...
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Restrictions on defining microstates (Entropy)
If we have an isolated system $Sb$ with thermodynamic entropy $Eb=X$
(and growing by the 2nd law of thermodynamics),
we could define an abstract system $Sa$ (containing the system $Sb$) but define ...
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How is thermodynamic entropy defined? What is its relationship to information entropy?
I read that thermodynamic entropy is a measure of the number of microenergy states. What is the derivation for $S=k\log N$, where $k$ is Boltzmann constant, $N$ number of microenergy states.
How is ...
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What is information?
We're all familiar with basic tenants such as "information cannot be transmitted faster than light" and ideas such as information conservation in scenarios like Hawking radiation (and in general, ...
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How efficient is a desktop computer?
As I understand it (and admittedly it's a weak grasp), a computer processes information irreversibly (AND gates, for example), and therefore has some minimum entropy increase associated with its ...
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Maxwell's Demon Constant (Information-Energy equivalence)
New Scientist article: Summon a 'demon' to turn information into energy
The speed of light c converts between space and time and also appears in e=mc^2.
Maxwell's Demon can turn information supplied ...
