Jordan M. Horowitz

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Jordan M. Horowitz is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He received his B.A. in physics and mathematics at Columbia University in New York in 2005 and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 2010. His research interests are the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of far-from-equilibrium systems and the thermodynamic consequences of feedback and information processing.


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Maxwell’s demon in the quantum world

Extraction of work from a heat bath using the Szilard engine depends crucially on the statistics of indistinguishable particles. Read More »