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Article: Maxwell's demon and Smoluchowski's trap door

TitleMaxwell's demon and Smoluchowski's trap door
Authors
Zheng, JZheng, XZhao, YXie, YYam, CChen, GJiang, QChwang, AT
KeywordsDensity (specific gravity)
Gas dynamics
Maxwell equations
Problem solving
Thermal effects
Issue Date2007
PublisherAmerican Physical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://pre.aps.org
Citation
Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), 2007, v. 75 n. 4, article no. 041109 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.041109
AbstractA simulation has been performed to reveal the detailed dynamics and statistical behavior of a Maxwell demon of the simplest kind, a trap door held over by a spring inside a box filled with gas molecules. The role of such a demon can be controlled by tuning Smoluchowski's fluctuations. When the demon is in thermal equilibrium with the rest of the system, it fails to function as designed, and when it is separately subjected to a thermal bath with a different temperature, it creates a temperature or density gradient between the two chambers of the box it divides. As a Maxwell demon, the trap-door device creates more readily a density gradient than that of temperature. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/91187
ISSN
1539-3755
2014 Impact Factor: 2.288
ISI Accession Number ID
WOS:000246073900025
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dc.contributor.authorChen, Gen_HK
dc.contributor.authorJiang, Qen_HK
dc.contributor.authorChwang, ATen_HK
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dc.description.abstractA simulation has been performed to reveal the detailed dynamics and statistical behavior of a Maxwell demon of the simplest kind, a trap door held over by a spring inside a box filled with gas molecules. The role of such a demon can be controlled by tuning Smoluchowski's fluctuations. When the demon is in thermal equilibrium with the rest of the system, it fails to function as designed, and when it is separately subjected to a thermal bath with a different temperature, it creates a temperature or density gradient between the two chambers of the box it divides. As a Maxwell demon, the trap-door device creates more readily a density gradient than that of temperature. © 2007 The American Physical Society.en_HK
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dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://pre.aps.orgen_HK
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dc.rightsCopyright 2007 by The American Physical Society. This article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.041109-
dc.subjectDensity (specific gravity)en_HK
dc.subjectGas dynamicsen_HK
dc.subjectMaxwell equationsen_HK
dc.subjectProblem solvingen_HK
dc.subjectThermal effectsen_HK
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