{"id":13184,"date":"2013-02-19T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13184"},"modified":"2013-02-19T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T08:00:08","slug":"the-devil-is-in-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13184","title":{"rendered":"The Devil is in the Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cocktail-party-physics\/2013\/02\/18\/maxwells-demon-meets-quantum-dots\/\">Maxwell\u2019s Demon Meets Quantum Dots<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While there is an increase in the total entropy  \u2014 per the second law of thermodynamics \u2014 that increase doesn\u2019t occur in the demon-y quantum dot by itself. As one of the collaborators, Massimiliano Esposito (University of Luxembourg) told Phys.org: \u201cIt does, of course, respect thermodynamics\u2026. However, if the part of the system implementing the demon is disregarded, everything looks as if the remaining pat of the system was subjected to a Maxwell demon breaking the second law while keeping the first one intact.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxwell\u2019s Demon Meets Quantum Dots While there is an increase in the total entropy \u2014 per the second law of thermodynamics \u2014 that increase doesn\u2019t occur in the demon-y quantum dot by itself. As one of the collaborators, Massimiliano Esposito &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}