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Landauer's "principle" claims that erasing one bit of information necessarily dissipates at least Tln2 of heat into the surroundings, making a possibly logically irreversible operation also thermodynamically irreversible. It is commonly…

General Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Didier Lairez

Landauer's principle bounds the heat generated by logical operations, but in practice the thermodynamic cost of computation is dominated by the control systems that implement logic. CMOS gates dissipate energy far above the Landauer bound,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Stephen Whitelam

This paper considers work extraction from a quantum system to a work storage system (or weight) following reference [1]. An alternative approach is here developed that relies on the comparison of subspace dimensions without a need to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 J. Gemmer , J. Anders

We show that Hawking black-hole evaporation saturates the Landauer Principle of information thermodynamics. Our result implies that information loss experienced by a black hole during Hawking evaporation takes place as efficiently as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Marina Cortês , Andrew R Liddle

In Szilard's engine, a demon measures a one-particle gas and applies feedback to extract work from thermal fluctuations, embodying Maxwell's notion that information reduces thermodynamic entropy - an apparent second-law violation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 Xiangjun Xing

The spin-boson model, often used in NMR and ESR physics, quantum optics and spintronics, is considered in a solvable limit to model a spin one-half particle interacting with a bosonic thermal bath. By applying external pulses to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Claudia Pombo , Armen E. Allahverdyan , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

Work extraction is one of the most central processes in quantum thermodynamics. However, the prior analysis of optimal extractable work has been restricted to a limited operational scenario where complete information about the initial state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Kaito Watanabe , Ryuji Takagi

Landauer's principle asserts that any computation has an unavoidable energy cost that grows proportionally to its degree of logical irreversibility. But even a logically reversible operation, when run on a physical processor that operates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Giulio Chiribella , Yuxiang Yang , Renato Renner

The equivalence of 1 bit of information to entropy was given by Landauer in 1961 as kln2, k the Boltzmann constant. Erasing information implies heat dissipation and the energy of 1 bit would then be (the Landauers limit) kT ln 2, T being…

General Physics · Physics 2014-01-24 Antonio Alfonso-Faus

In 1961, Rolf Landauer pointed out that resetting a binary memory requires a minimum energy of $k_BT \ln(2)$. However, once written, any memory is doomed to loose its content if no action is taken. To avoid memory losses, a refresh…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-11 Davide Chiuchiù , Miquel López-Suárez , Igor Neri , Maria Cristina Diamantini , Luca Gammaitoni

This study is the first experimental verification of the Landauer bound on a single spin, which is the smallest information carrier in size. We used four experiments (single spin experiment, giant spin experiment, nanomagnet experiment, and…

General Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Frank Zhigang Wang

When reformulated as a resource theory, thermodynamics can analyze system behaviors in the single-shot regime. In this, the work required to implement state transitions is bounded by {\alpha}-Renyi divergences and so differs in identifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Jinghao Lyu , Alexander B. Boyd , James P. Crutchfield

The Landauer limit is to irreversible logic what the Carnot cycle is to heat engines. This limit is approached in the adiabatic Quantum Flux Parametron (aQFP) by copying the inputs of standard logic gates to produce reversible logic gates,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Quentin Herr

Landauer's Principle that information loss from a computation implies entropy increase can be rigorously proved from mathematical physics. However, carefully examining its detailed formulation reveals that the traditional identification of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Michael P. Frank

The heat dissipation in quantum metrology represents not only an unavoidable problem towards practical applications of quantum sensing devices but also a fundamental relationship between thermodynamics and quantum metrology. However, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai

With the progress of nano-technology, thermodynamics also has to be scaled down, calling for specific protocols to extract and measure work. Usually, such protocols involve the action of an external, classical field (the battery) of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Cyril Elouard , Maxime Richard , Alexia Auffèves

Understanding the thermodynamic properties of quantum systems is essential for developing energy-efficient quantum technologies. In this regard, this work explores the application of quantum computational methods to study the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Lucas Galvão , Ana Clara das Neves , Maron Anka , Clebson Cruz

Landauer's principle is, roughly, the principle that there is an entropic cost associated with implementation of logically irreversible operations. Though widely accepted in the literature on the thermodynamics of computation, it has been…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Wayne C. Myrvold

Landauer principle describes the minimum heat produced by an information-processing device. Recently a new term has been included in the minimum heat production: it's called conditional entropy and takes into account the microstates content…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-06 D. Chiuchiú , M. C. Diamantini , L. Gammaitoni

Among the emerging technologies with prophesied quantum advantage, quantum communications has already led to fascinating demonstrations -- including quantum teleportation to and from satellites. However, all optical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Maxwell Aifer , Nathan Myers , Sebastian Deffner