Timeline for Maxwell's Demon as a heat source on memory erasure
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| Jan 20, 2023 at 19:58 | comment | added | Chemomechanics | Could you please explain your comment that the filled-out abacus has $2^n$ states. Surely the beads aren't thermalized—that would make a very poor abacus. They sit in place after being set. Why doesn't the abacus then continue to have one state (not counting its material entropy; perhaps we could assume that it's arbitrarily cold)? | |
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| S Jan 20, 2023 at 17:50 | history | answered | Nullius in Verba | CC BY-SA 4.0 |