We review a general theory of thermodynamics of information processing. The background
of this topic is the recently-developed nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and quantum …

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 …

Because of conservation of energy we cannot directly turn a quantum system with a definite
energy into a superposition of different energies. However, if we have access to an …

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 …

Shannon information theory provides various measures of so-called syntactic information,
which reflect the amount of statistical correlation between systems. By contrast, the concept …

We establish the fluctuation theorem in the presence of information exchange between a
nonequilibrium system and other degrees of freedom such as an observer and a feedback …

The work content of non-equilibrium systems in relation to a heat bath is often analysed in
terms of expectation values of an underlying random work variable. However, when …

Few books comprehensively cover the software and programming aspects of reversible
computing. Filling this gap, Introduction to Reversible Computing offers an expanded view of …

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 …