Twisted Radio Waves and Twisted Thermodynamics

We present and analyze a gedanken experiment and show that the assumption that an antenna operating at a single frequency can transmit more than two independent information channels to the far field violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Transmission of a large number of channels, each associate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kish, Laszlo B., Nevels, Robert D.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570411/