Landauer's principle in repeated interaction systems (Q507278)

In the present paper, the authors consider an adaptation of Landauer's lower bound to the peculiar discrete time dynamics of Repeated Interaction Systems (RIS). It is proved a discrete time non-unitary adiabatic theorem to approximate the reduced dynamics, in order to tackle the adiabatic limit of Landauer's bound. The saturation of Landauer's bound is related to a detailed balance condition on the repeated interaction system, reflecting the non-equilibrium nature of the RIS dynamics.