The Landauer Principle: Re-Formulation of the Second Thermodynamics Law or a Step to Great Unification?

Entropy

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Edward Bormashenko¹ 

[1] Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, Engineering Sciences Faculty, Ariel University, Ariel 407000, Israel;

关键词: Landauer principle;    entropy;    information;    relativity, particle, field;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e21100918

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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 equivalent. In its narrow sense, the Landauer principle states that the erasure of one bit of information requires a minimum energy cost equal to k_BT ln2, where T is the temperature of a thermal reservoir used in the process and $k_B$ is Boltzmann’s constant. The Landauer principle remains highly debatable. It has been argued that, since it is not independent of the second law of thermodynamics, it is either unnecessary or insufficient as an exorcism of Maxwell’s demon. On the other hand, the Landauer principle enables the “informational” reformulation of thermodynamic laws. Thus, the Landauer principle touches the deepest physical roots of thermodynamics. Authors are invited to contribute papers devoted to the meaning, interpretation, physical roots, experimental verification and applications of the Landauer principle. Papers devoted to the quantum and relativity aspects of the Landauer principle are encouraged.

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