Thermodynamics of information
@article{Parrondo2015ThermodynamicsOI, title={Thermodynamics of information}, author={Juan Manuel Rodr{\'i}guez Parrondo and Jordan M. Horowitz and Takahiro Sagawa}, journal={Nature Physics}, year={2015}, volume={11}, pages={131-139} }
By its very nature, the second law of thermodynamics is probabilistic, in that its formulation requires a probabilistic description of the state of a system. This raises questions about the objectivity of the second law: does it depend, for example, on what we know about the system? For over a century, much effort has been devoted to incorporating information into thermodynamics and assessing the entropic and energetic costs of manipulating information. More recently, this historically…
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