Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2011-09-16
Phys. Rev. E, Volume 85, p.020104 (2012)
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
4 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.85.020104
Shape is an important feature of physical systems although very seldom it is addressed in the framework of a quantitative description approach. In this paper we propose to interpret the shape of things as a physical manifestation of the content of information associated with each thing and show that a change of shape in a physical system is necessarily connected with a change of its entropy and thus involves energy. We estimate the amount of energy dissipated during a shape change and propose experimental tests to be performed in nanoscale systems, to verify this prediction by measuring the expected dissipation in few simple cases.
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