The (absence of a) relationship between thermodynamic and logical reversibility

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2004.11.006zbMATH Open1222.81152arXivphysics/0406137OpenAlexW2118875018MaRDI QIDQ640236FDOQ640236

Owen J. E. Maroney

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Landauer erasure seems to provide a powerful link between thermodynamics and information processing (logical computation). The only logical operations that require a generation of heat are logically irreversible ones, with the minimum heat generation being $kTln2$ per bit of information lost. Nevertheless, it will be shown logical reversibility neither implies, nor is implied by thermodynamic reversibility. By examining thermodynamically reversible operations which are logically irreversible, it is possible to show that information and entropy, while having the same form, are conceptually different.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0406137

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zbMATH Keywords

informationcomputationMaxwell's demonstatistical mechanicsthermodynamicsLandauer's principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Substructural logics (including relevance, entailment, linear logic, Lambek calculus, BCK and BCI logics) (03B47) Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P94) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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