Slizard did a whole bunch of stuff in this area in the 1940s. Feynmann has some good introductions to it in his Lectures in Physics series (I forget which volume), IIRC. This was more focussed on the thermodynamics of computation (eg what efficiency limits are there on processing bits).
Later on, there was some work basing statistical mechanics on information theory. Denbigh and Denbigh was a good book from the early '80s that talked about this. This stuff is kind of the reverse side of the coin to Slizard's stuff. Cheers On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:27:45AM +1000, Colin Hales wrote: > Hi all, > I was wondering if anyone out there knows of any papers that connect > computational processes to thermodynamics in some organized fashion. > The sort of thing I am looking for would have statements saying > > cooling is ....(info/computational equivalent) > pressure is ..(info/computational equivalent) > temperature is .... > volume is .... > entropy is .... > > I have found a few but I think I am missing the good stuff. > here's one ... > > Reiss, H. 'Thermodynamic-Like Transformations in Information > Theory', Journal of Statistical Physics vol. 1, no. 1, 1969. > 107-131. > > cheers > colin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
