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Landauer's principle at zero temperature

Quantum Physics 2020-07-01 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Landauer's bound relates changes in the entropy of a system with the inevitable dissipation of heat to the environment. The bound, however, becomes trivial in the limit of zero temperature. Here we show that it is possible to derive a tighter bound which remains non-trivial even as T0T\to 0. As in the original case, the only assumption we make is that the environment is in a thermal state. Nothing is said about the state of the system or the kind of system-environment interaction. Our bound is valid for all temperatures and is always tighter than the original one, tending to it in the limit of high temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.1911.00910,
  title  = {Landauer's principle at zero temperature},
  author = {Andre M. Timpanaro and Jader P. Santos and Gabriel T. Landi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.00910},
  year   = {2020}
}
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