Second Thoughts on the Second Law

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-98355-4_27zbMATH Open1514.68072arXiv1810.05276OpenAlexW2885284331MaRDI QIDQ6163645FDOQ6163645

S. Wolf

Publication date: 30 June 2023

Published in: Adventures Between Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We speculate whether the second law of thermodynamics has more to do with Turing machines than steam pipes. It states the logical reversibility of reality as a computation, i.e., the fact that no information is forgotten: nature computes with Toffoli-, not NAND gates. On the way there, we correct Landauer's erasure principle by directly linking it to lossless data compression, and we further develop that to a lower bound on the energy consumption and heat dissipation of a general computation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05276

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coding and information theory (compaction, compression, models of communication, encoding schemes, etc.) (aspects in computer science) (68P30) Algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity, etc.) (68Q30) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) General topics in the theory of computing (68Q01)

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