PHY 28B
Natural Computation and Self-Organization:
The Physics of Information Processing in Complex Systems

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@cse.ucdavis.edu; http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Spring
WWW: http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/ncaso/

Lecture 37b: Thermodynamics of Information, Part II
Alec Boyd, CSC

Reading: Lecture Notes.

Topics:

  1. Information is a Thermodynamic Fuel
  2. Information Engines
  3. Information Reservoirs
  4. Energy Production
  5. Information Ratchet
  6. Thermodynamics of Transducers
  7. Work
  8. Thermodynamic Functionality: Engines versus Erasers
  9. Nonequilibrium, Memoryful Ratchets
  10. Types of Order
  11. Physical Computation
  12. Modularity Dissipation
  13. Pattern Extractors
  14. Pattern Generators
  15. Information Processing Second Law