Landauer's Principle asserts that there is an unavoidable cost in thermodynamic entropy
creation when data is erased. It is usually derived from incorrect assumptions, most notably …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We review the physical foundations of Landauer's Principle, which relates the loss of
information from a computational process to an increase in thermodynamic entropy. Despite …

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 …

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 …

Landauerʼs principle relates entropy decrease and heat dissipation during logically
irreversible processes. Most theoretical justifications of Landauerʼs principle either use …

The heat generated by computations is not only an obstacle to circuit miniaturization but also
a fundamental aspect of the relationship between information theory and thermodynamics …

The fundamental lower bounds on the thermodynamic energy cost of measurement and
information erasure are determined. The lower bound on the erasure validates Landauer's …