Special Issue "Maxwell’s Demon 2013"

Guest Editor
Dr. Owen Maroney
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK
E-Mail: owen.maroney@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Interests: quantum nanoscience; quantum theory; statistical mechanics

Dear Colleagues,

Since the earliest days of statistical mechanics, the existence of thermal fluctuations have posed a threat to our understanding of thermodynamics. This threat was vividly captured by Maxwell, who envisaged a nimble and light fingered being, able to systematically exploit and accumulate these fluctuations. With the latest developments in quantum nanotechnology, the manipulation of individual systems becomes a realistic possibility, while a modern consensus seems to have emerged that the being must still fail due to properties of information processing. Assessing the strength of these claims requires addressing many of the key open questions in the foundations of statistical mechanics.

Dr. Owen Marone
Guest Editor

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Entropy is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs).

Maxwell's Demon
Landauer's Principle
thermal fluctuations
physics of information
quantum information
thermodynamic irreversibility