Breaking information-thermodynamics link
Quantum Physics
2014-06-24 v1
Abstract
The information-thermodynamics link is revisited, going back to the analysis of Szilard's engine. It is argued that instead of equivalence rather complementarity of physical entropy and information theoretical one is a correct concept. Famous Landauer's formula for a minimal cost of information processing is replaced by a new one which takes into account accuracy and stability of information encoding. Two recent experiments illustrating the information-energy conversion are critically discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.5879,
title = {Breaking information-thermodynamics link},
author = {Robert Alicki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5879},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1402.2414