Landauer's principle states that in erasing one bit of information, on average, at least k BT ln
(2) energy is dissipated into the environment (where k B is Boltzmann's constant and T is the …

Landauer argued that the erasure of 1 bit of information stored in a memory device requires
a minimal heat generation of k BT ln2 [IBM J. Res. Dev. 5, 183 (1961)], but recently several …

Using a double-well potential as a physical memory, we study with experiments and
numerical simulations the energy exchanges during erasure processes, and model …

We present an experiment in which a one-bit memory is constructed, using a system of a
single colloidal particle trapped in a modulated double-well potential. We measure the …

Landauer's principle states that the erasure of one bit of information requires thefree energy
kT ln 2. We argue that the reliability of the bit erasure process isbounded by the accuracy …

Abstract In 1961, Rolf Landauer argued that the erasure of information is a dissipative
process 1. A minimal quantity of heat, proportional to the thermal energy and called the …

This article discusses the concept of information and its intimate relationship with physics.
After an introduction of all the necessary quantum mechanical and information theoretical …

Landauer argued that the process of erasing the information stored in a memory device
incurs an energy cost in the form of a minimum amount of mechanical work. We find …

Landauer's principle is the loosely formulated notion that the erasure of n bits of information
must always incur a cost of klnn in thermodynamic entropy. It can be formulated as a precise …

The Landauer principle quantifies the thermodynamic cost of the recording/erasure of one
bit of information, as it was stated by its author:“information is physical” and it has an energy …