Refining Landauer's stack: balancing error and dissipation when erasing information

DOI10.1007/S10955-021-02733-1MaRDI QIDQ2034657zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gregory W. Wimsatt, Alexander B. Boyd, P. M. Riechers, James P. Crutchfield

Publication date 22 June 2021

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14235

zbMATH Keywords

dissipationthermodynamicsentropy productionnonequilibrium steady stateLandauer bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: Nonequilibrium information thermodynamics determines the minimum energy dissipation to reliably erase memory under time-symmetric control protocols. We demonstrate that its bounds are tight and so show that the costs overwhelm those implied by Landauer's energy bound on information erasure. Moreover, in the limit of perfect computation, the costs diverge. The conclusion is that time-asymmetric protocols should be developed for efficient, accurate thermodynamic computing. And, that Landauer's Stack -- the full suite of theoretically-predicted thermodynamic costs -- is ready for experimental test and calibration.

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