Computers may be thought of as engines for transforming free energy into waste heat and
mathematical work. Existing electronic computers dissipate energy vastly in excess of the …

Are principles of information processing necessary to demonstrate the consistency of
statistical mechanics? Does the physical implementation of a computational operation have …

The relationship between the thermodynamic and computational properties of physical
systems has been a major theoretical interest since at least the 19th century. It has also …

Landauer's principle, often regarded as the basic principle of the thermodynamics of
information processing, holds that any logically irreversible manipulation of information …

One of the central concerns of computer science is how the resources needed to perform a
given computation depend on that computation. Moreover, one of the major resource …

Algorithmic randomness provides a rigorous, entropylike measure of disorder of an
individual, microscopic, definite state of a physical system. It is defined by the size (in binary …

The question of the energy dissipation in the computational process is considered. Contrary
to previous studies, dissipation is found to be an integral part of computation. A …

We review and investigate the general theory of the thermodynamics of computation, and
derive the fundamental inequalities that set the lower bounds of the work requirement and …

About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical"
demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination …

Over 130 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his hypothetical" demon" as a
challenge to the scope of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon …