Beyond Landauer erasure

DOI10.3390/E15114956zbMATH Open1342.82003DBLPjournals/entropy/BarnettV13arXiv1310.7821OpenAlexW3106229161WikidataQ63171072 ScholiaQ63171072MaRDI QIDQ280695FDOQ280695

Authors: Stephen M. Barnett, Joan A. Vaccaro 

Publication date: 10 May 2016

Published in: Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In thermodynamics one considers thermal systems and the maximization of entropy subject to the conservation of energy. A consequence is Landauer's erasure principle, which states that the erasure of 1 bit of information requires a minimum energy cost equal to $kTln(2)$ where $T$ is the temperature of a thermal reservoir used in the process and $k$ is Boltzmann's constant. Jaynes, however, argued that the maximum entropy principle could be applied to any number of conserved quantities which would suggest that information erasure may have alternative costs. Indeed we showed recently that by using a reservoir comprising energy degenerate spins and subject to conservation of angular momentum, the cost of information erasure is in terms of angular momentum rather than energy. Here we extend this analysis and derive the minimum cost of information erasure for systems where different conservation laws operate. We find that, for each conserved quantity, the minimum resource needed to erase 1 bit of memory is $lambd{a}^{-1}ln(2)$ where $lambda$ is related to the average value of the conserved quantity. The costs of erasure depend, fundamentally, on both the nature of the physical memory element and the reservoir with which it is coupled.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7821

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zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamicsmaximum entropy principleinformation erasurespin reservoir

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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