DEMONIC programming: a computational language for single-particle equilibrium thermodynamics, and its formal semantics.

Maxwell's Demon, 'a being whose faculties are so sharpened that he can follow every molecule in its course', has been the centre of much debate about its abilities to violate the second law of thermodynamics. Landauer's hypothesis, that the Demon must erase its memory and incur a...

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Main Authors: Samson Abramsky, Dominic Horsman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2015-11-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.01566v1