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Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics

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  • Antoine Bérut

    (Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure)

  • Artak Arakelyan

    (Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure)

  • Artyom Petrosyan

    (Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure)

  • Sergio Ciliberto

    (Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure)

  • Raoul Dillenschneider

    (University of Kaiserslautern)

  • Eric Lutz

    (University of Augsburg
    Present address: Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.)

Abstract

Experimental demonstration of the Landauer bound in a generic one-bit memory—linking the erasure of information to the production of heat and, thus, entropy—confirms the connection between information theory and thermodynamics.

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  • Antoine Bérut & Artak Arakelyan & Artyom Petrosyan & Sergio Ciliberto & Raoul Dillenschneider & Eric Lutz, 2012. "Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics," Nature, Nature, vol. 483(7388), pages 187-189, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:483:y:2012:i:7388:d:10.1038_nature10872
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10872
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    Cited by:

    1. Ruth E. Kastner & Andreas Schlatter, 2024. "Entropy Cost of ‘Erasure’ in Physically Irreversible Processes," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-9, January.
    2. Didier Lairez, 2024. "Thermostatistics, Information, Subjectivity: Why Is This Association So Disturbing?," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-28, May.
    3. Ünsal Özdilek, 2021. "Sensing Happiness in Senseless Information," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 16(5), pages 2059-2084, October.

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