Deriving Landauer's erasure principle from statistical mechanics
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We present a concise derivation of Landauer's erasure principle from the postulates of statistical mechanics, along with a small number of additional but uncontroversial axioms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0512105,
title = {Deriving Landauer's erasure principle from statistical mechanics},
author = {Kurt Jacobs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0512105},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, revtex4. Comments appreciated