Differential Landauer's principle
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-15 v1
Abstract
Landauer's principle states that the erasure of information must be a dissipative process. In this paper, we carefully analyze the recording and erasure of information on a physical memory. On the one hand, we show that in order to record some information, the memory has to be driven out of equilibrium. On the other hand, we derive a differential version of Landauer's principle: We link the rate at which entropy is produced at every time of the erasure process to the rate at which information is erased.
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@article{arxiv.1302.6478,
title = {Differential Landauer's principle},
author = {Léo Granger and Holger Kantz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6478},
year = {2015}
}
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11 pages, 6 figures