Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: New concepts from nonequilibrium thermodynamics are used to show that Landauer's principle can be understood in terms of time asymmetry in the dynamical randomness generated by the physical process of the erasure of digital information. In this way, Landauer's principle is generalized, showing that the dissipation associated with the erasure of a sequence of bits produces entropy at the rate k B I per erased bit, where I is Shannon's information per bit.
Source: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
Authors: D. Andrieux, P. Gaspard
Institution: Université Libre de Bruxelles
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2054670765