Quantitative limits on the ability of a Maxwell demon to extract work from heat
- 30 April 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (18), 2111-2114
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.2111
Abstract
A Maxwell demon gathers and uses information to extract work from heat. Limits derived here suggest that a Maxwell demon can extract work only by waiting for rare thermal fluctuations.Keywords
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