Physicists create first photonic Maxwell's demon
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 09:40
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Maxwell's demon, a hypothetical being that appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, has been widely studied since it was first proposed in 1867 by James Clerk Maxwell. But most of these studies have been theoretical, with only a handful of experiments having actually realized Maxwell's demon.