Quantum thermodynamics is an emerging research field aiming to extend standard
thermodynamics and non-equilibrium statistical physics to ensembles of sizes well below …

The Landauer principle states that any logically irreversible information processing must be
accompanied by dissipation into the environment. In this Letter, we investigate the heat …

The most accepted version of the third law of thermodynamics, the unattainability principle,
states that any process cannot reach absolute zero temperature in a finite number of steps …

Landauer's bound is the minimum thermodynamic cost for erasing one bit of information. As
this bound is achievable only for quasistatic processes, finite-time operation incurs …

We consider how the energy cost of bit reset scales with the time duration of the protocol. Bit
reset necessarily takes place in finite time, where there is an extra penalty on top of the …

Thermodynamics at the nanoscale is known to differ significantly from its familiar
macroscopic counterpart: The possibility of state transitions is not determined by free energy …

Information is physical but information is also processed in finite time. Where computing
protocols are concerned, finite-time processing in the quantum regime can dynamically …

We study the finite-time erasure of a one-bit memory consisting of a one-dimensional double-
well potential, with each well encoding a memory macrostate. We focus on setups that …

Thermodynamics has recently been extended to small scales with resource theories that
model heat exchanges. Real physical systems exchange diverse quantities: heat, particles …

Landauer's principle gives a fundamental limit to the thermodynamic cost of erasing
information. Its saturation requires a reversible isothermal process, and hence infinite time …