Critical Remarks on Landauer’s principle of erasure– dissipation: Including notes on Maxwell demons and Szilard engines
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We briefly address Landauer’s Principle and some related issues in thermal demons. We show that an error-free Turing computer works in the zero-entropy limit, which proves Landauer’s derivation incorrect. To have a physical logic gate, memory or information-engine, a few essential components necessary for the operation of these devices are often neglected, such as various aspects of control, damping and the fluctuation–dissipation theorem. We also point out that bit erasure is typically not needed or used for the functioning of computers or engines (except for secure erasure).
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- Category:
- Conference activity
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- materiały konferencyjne indeksowane w Web of Science
- Title of issue:
- 2015 International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF) strony 1 - 4
- Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Bibliographic description:
- Kish L., Granqvist C., Khatri S., Smulko J..: Critical Remarks on Landauer’s principle of erasure– dissipation: Including notes on Maxwell demons and Szilard engines, W: 2015 International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF), 2015, ,.
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1109/icnf.2015.7288632
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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