N-States Continuous Maxwell Demon

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This manuscript is exceptionally well written. The content will be of broad interest to the reads of the Entropy journal. I recommend publishing as it is.    

Author Response

We wish to thank the encouraging appraisal by the reviewer.

We wish to thank the reviewers for their positive comments. In particular, we have addressed the questions raised by one of them. We have re-edited most of the manuscript by correcting text, amending the figures and adapting the bibliography to the style of the journal.

Reviewer 2 Report

In the manuscript titled “N-states Continuous Maxwell demon”, the authors have discussed a generalized toy model describing an N state continuous Maxwell demon. The authors also provide an information theory perspective for the model.

The study described in the manuscript is relevant to the journal community and the method/model described in the manuscript is providing an appropriate treatment to the subject matter. The manuscript will benefit from a final proof-check to remove minor errors like: check equation 2, there case where σ’ = σ is incomplete.

Author Response

We greatly appreciate the positive comments by the reviewer. We have made the change requested and a new re-editing of the text.

We wish to thank the reviewers for their positive comments. In particular, we have addressed the questions raised by one of them. We have re-edited most of the manuscript by correcting text, amending the figures and adapting the bibliography to the style of the journal.