Maxwell's Demon, Rectifiers, and the Second Law: Computer Simulation of Smoluchowski's Trapdoor

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dc.creator	Skordos, P.A.	-
dc.creator	Zurek, W.H.	-
dc.date	2004-10-08T20:28:56Z	-
dc.date	2004-10-08T20:28:56Z	-
dc.date	1991-09-01	-
dc.date.accessioned	2013-10-09T02:46:06Z	-
dc.date.available	2013-10-09T02:46:06Z	-
dc.date.issued	2013-10-09	-
dc.identifier	AIM-1319	-
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6579	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721	-
dc.description	We have simulated numerically an automated Maxwell's demon inspired by Smoluchowski's ideas of 1912. Two gas chambers of equal area are connected via an opening that is covered by a trapdoor. The trapdoor can open to the left but not to the right, and is intended to rectify naturally occurring variations in density between the two chambers. Our results confirm that though the trapdoor behaves as a rectifier when large density differences are imposed by external means, it can not extract useful work from the thermal motion of the molecules when left on its own.	-
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dc.language	en_US	-
dc.relation	AIM-1319	-
dc.title	Maxwell's Demon, Rectifiers, and the Second Law: Computer Simulation of Smoluchowski's Trapdoor	-
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