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Keeping the entropy of measurement: Szilard revisited

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What happens to von Neumann's entropy of measurement after we get the outcome? It becomes entropy of erasure. This is cribbed from Szilard (1929). Also, two errors in that celebrated paper are corrected.

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Lubkin, E. Keeping the entropy of measurement: Szilard revisited. Int J Theor Phys 26, 523–535 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670091

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