1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001224429707536

Autore

Anselmus <Vescovo di Lucca>

Titolo

Collectio canonum una cum collectione minore iussu instituti savignani / Anselm 2. (Anselmus Episcopus Lucensis) ; recensuit Friedrich Thaner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aalen : Scientia, 1965

Descrizione fisica

519 p. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Thaner, Friedrich

Disciplina

250

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rist. anast. dell'ed.: Innsbruck, 1906-15

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254600603321

Autore

Gavrilov Momčilo

Titolo

Experiments on the Thermodynamics of Information Processing / / by Momčilo Gavrilov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-63694-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

536.7

Soggetti

Thermodynamics

Physical measurements

Measurement

Physics

Measurement Science and Instrumentation

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"Doctoral Thesis accepted by Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Feedback Trap -- Real-time Calibration of a Feedback Trap -- High-Precision Test of Landauer’s Principle -- Erasure without Work in an Asymmetric, Double-well Potential -- Thermodynamical and Logical Irreversibility -- Arbitrarily Slow, Non-quasistatic, Isothermal Transformations -- Partial Memory Erasure: Testing Shannon’s Entropy Function -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This thesis reveals how the feedback trap technique, developed to trap small objects for biophysical measurement, could be adapted for the quantitative study of the thermodynamic properties of small systems. The experiments in this thesis are related to Maxwell’s demon, a hypothetical intelligent, “neat fingered” being that uses information to extract work from heat, apparently creating a perpetual-motion machine.  The second law of thermodynamics should make that impossible, but how? That question has stymied physicists and provoked debate for a century and a half. The experiments in this thesis confirm a hypothesis proposed by Rolf Landauer over fifty years ago: that Maxwell’s demon would need to erase information, and that erasing information—resetting the measuring device to a standard starting state—requires dissipating as much energy as is gained.  For his thesis work, the author used a “feedback trap” to study the motion of colloidal particles in “v irtual potentials” that may be manipulated arbitrarily. The feedback trap confines a freely diffusing particle in liquid by periodically measuring its position and applying an electric field to move it back to the origin.