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Entropy Generation by a Maxwell Demon in the Sequential Sorting of the Particles in an Ideal Gas

Roger D. Jones, Sven G. Redsun, Roger E. Frye

physics.class-pharXiv:physics/0311023

Abstract

This paper revisits the Maxwell Demon Problem. Representing the demon with a simple physical computer composed of a single memory element, we demonstrate that the average minimum entropy increase of the universe due to sorting of particles with a Maxwell Demon is eta=0.8400 for particles that are initially randomly distributed.

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