Landauer's principle dictates that performing logically irreversible computation requires consuming energy
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Landauer's principle establishes a fundamental lower bound on the energy that must be dissipated as heat when performing logically irreversible computations, such as erasing information.
Evidence for · 5
Landauer principle and thermodynamics of computation
2025 · cited by 19
The review notes that Landauer's principle establishes a lower bound on heat dissipation for logically irreversible processes like information erasure.
Evidence against · 1
Thermodynamical versus Logical Irreversibility: A Concrete Objection to Landauer's Principle.
2023 · cited by 7
The paper provides a counterexample arguing that certain physical implementations allow a bit to be erased in a thermodynamically quasistatic, reversible manner.
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The Landauer Principle: Re-Formulation of the Second Thermodynamics Law or a Step to Great Unification?
2019 · cited by 19
The article explains that the principle quantifies the thermodynamic energy cost required to record or erase a bit of information.
Landauer Bound in the Context of Minimal Physical Principles: Meaning, Experimental Verification, Controversies and Perspectives.
2024 · cited by 4
The paper confirms that the principle defines the theoretical minimum limit of energy consumption necessary for irreversible computational changes.
Verification of Information Thermodynamics in a Trapped Ion System.
2022 · cited by 2
The work discusses quantum information thermodynamics and the experimental verification of the Landauer principle.
Modified Landauer Principle According to Tsallis Entropy.
2024 · cited by 1
The article reaffirms that the principle establishes a lower bound on the energy dissipated when erasing information.