Here are links to some references for this week's talk on "Ratchets, Pawls, and Maxwell's Demon."
1.The Wikipedia page on Maxwell's demon has excerpts from Maxwell's original letter.
2. Smoluchowski's analysis of the ratchet and pawl is described by Feynman in his Lectures on Physics, chapter 46.
3. Magnasco and Stolovitzky on Feynman's ratchet and pawl: http://asterion.rockefeller.edu/marcelo/Reprints/17feynmansr.pdf
4. Jarzinsky and Mazonka on an exactly solvable ratchet-pawl model: http://pre.aps.org/pdf/PRE/v59/i6/p6448_1
5. Szilard's paper: http://webout.weizmann.ac.il/complex/tlusty/courses/InfoInBio/Papers/Szilard1929.pdf
6. Landauer's paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.68.7646&rep=rep1&type=pdf
7. Bennett on Demons, Engines and the Second Law: https://ecee.colorado.edu/~ecen4555/SourceMaterial/DemonsEnginesAndSecondLaw87.pdf . This paper also contains a description of an apparatus which according to Bennett performs the measurement/ copying operation for arbitrarily little energy.
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