Demons, Engines and the Second Law
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Bennett showed that all computations could be performed using reversible logical operations only.
“In 1973, Bennett 28 -30 showed that all computations could be performed using reversible logical operations only.”
From Ultimate physical limits to computation (2000) · cites this paper as [30]
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Ultimate physical limits to computation
Lloyd, S. (2000) · Nature · doi:10.1038/35023282 · Cited by 1,120 · see citing works
Koonin, E. V., Wolf, Y. I., & Katsnelson, M. I. (2017) · Biology Direct · doi:10.1186/s13062-017-0202-5 · Cited by 74 · see citing works
- Authors
- Bennett, C. H.
- Corresponding author
- Bennett, Charles H.
- ORCID
- Bennett, Charles H.
- Venue
- Scientific American
- Published
- 1987-11
- Volume
- 257
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 108-116
- ISSN
- 0036-8733 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2047991033
- Cited by
- 295
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 6.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Scientific American (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Advanced Thermodynamic Systems and Engines
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Keywords
- second law of thermodynamics, entropy, heat engines, demons, information and entropy, irreversibility
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
