Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Inspired by Modern Information Theory

A collection of recent papers revisit how to quantify the relationship between information and work in the light of modern information theory, so-called single-shot information theory. This is an introduction to those papers, from the perspective of the author. Many of the results may be viewed as a...

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Published in:Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2013-12, Vol.15 (12), p.5346-5361
Main Author: Dahlsten, Oscar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Maxwell’s daemon
non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
single-shot information theory
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Summary:A collection of recent papers revisit how to quantify the relationship between information and work in the light of modern information theory, so-called single-shot information theory. This is an introduction to those papers, from the perspective of the author. Many of the results may be viewed as a quantification of how much work a generalized Maxwell’s daemon can extract as a function of its extra information. These expressions do not in general involve the Shannon/von Neumann entropy but rather quantities from single-shot information theory. In a limit of large systems composed of many identical and independent parts the Shannon/von Neumann entropy is recovered.
ISSN:1099-4300
1099-4300
DOI:10.3390/e15125346