Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment that appears to disprove the second law of thermodynamics. It was proposed by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell...

1970s and 1980s. Brian Slade's gradually overwhelming stage persona of "Maxwell Demon" and his backing band, "Venus in Furs", resemble Bowie's Ziggy Stardust...

Darwinian demons in thought experiments to understand different life history strategies among different organisms. Darwinian demons (inspired by Maxwell's demons)...

led him to devise the thought experiment that came to be known as Maxwell's demon, where the second law of thermodynamics is violated by an imaginary...

In the history of science, Laplace's demon was a notable published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in...

scientist obsessed with perpetual motion. He has tried to invent a type of Maxwell's demon to create a perpetual motion machine. Oedipa visits him to see the...

"demon" here does not necessarily connotate a demon, a malevolent being. For instance, when William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) came up with the Maxwell's demon...

Look up demon, daemon, or dæmon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A demon is a malevolent supernatural being in religion, occultism, mythology, folklore...

around 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort...

molecular demon or biological molecular machine is a biological macromolecule that resembles and seems to have the same properties as Maxwell's demon. These...

entropy caused by the demon would be less than the entropy produced by choosing molecules based on their speed. Maxwell's 'demon' repeatedly alters the...

are the products of natural selection. The third chapter is named "Maxwell's Demons". It starts off by stating that proteins are the molecular agents of...

least to Maxwell's demon) is unidirectionality. Only molecules moving fast enough and in the right direction are allowed through the demon's trap door...

the context of Maxwell's demon. The name comes from a thought experiment described by James Clerk Maxwell in which a microscopic demon guards a gate between...

University, where he studied physics. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Maxwell's demon, a long-standing puzzle in the philosophy of thermal and statistical...

refinement of the famous Maxwell's demon scenario (and a reversal of the Joule expansion thought experiment). Consider Maxwell's set-up, but with only a...

thesis Maxwell's demon Koomey's law No-deleting theorem Charles H. Bennett (2003), "Notes on Landauer's principle, Reversible Computation and Maxwell's Demon"...

"... the situation with respect to Maxwell's paradox", in Leff, Harvey S.; Rex, A. F., eds. (2003). Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information...

create a heat pump, which of course would comply with the second law. A Maxwell's demon conducts an extremely idealized and naturally unrealizable kind of...

the past. Later authors have coined the term "Loschmitz's demon" (in analogy to Maxwell's demon, see below) for an entity that is able to reverse time evolution...

Maxwell's relations are a set of equations in thermodynamics which are derivable from the symmetry of second derivatives and from the definitions of the...

Translated by H. W. & F. G. Fowler. Randall L. Schweller (3 April 2014). Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium. JHU Press...

Maxwell & Demon Gargoyle is an outdoor 1989 sculpture by Wayne Chabre, installed in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States. It is a low-relief portrait...

manuscript The Rule of Phase Applied to History, Adams attempted to use Maxwell's demon as a historical metaphor, though he seems to have misunderstood and...

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perfectly sealed environment and a tiny bit of radioactive substance, and Maxwell's demon, which attempts to demonstrate the ability of a hypothetical finite...

production Toffoli gate Time evolution Quantum circuit Reversible computing Maxwell's demon Stirling engine McGovern, Judith (17 March 2020). "Reversible processes"...

of a tiny paddle wheel and a ratchet, appears to be an example of a Maxwell's demon, able to extract mechanical work from random fluctuations (heat) in...

by a local reversal of the second law through the intervention of Maxwell's demon who has introduced himself to Maud in one of her dreams). Mr Tompkins'...