Landauer's principle dictates that performing logically irreversible computation requires consuming energy
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.
The vast majority of the retrieved literature (such as papers 1, 2, 5, 9, and 11) supports Landauer's principle, establishing that logically irreversible computations entail energy consumption and heat dissipation. A minority paper (3) presents a theoretical objection involving quasistatic erasure, but the overwhelming consensus and standard formulation of the principle remain strongly supported across thermodynamics and information theory.
Pritam Chattopadhyay, Avijit Misra, Tanmoy Pandit, Goutam Paul. Landauer principle and thermodynamics of computation. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/add6b3
The review notes that Landauer's principle establishes a lower bound on heat dissipation for logically irreversible processes like information erasure.
Lairez D. Thermodynamical versus Logical Irreversibility: A Concrete Objection to Landauer's Principle.. 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25081155
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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Edward Bormashenko. The Landauer Principle: Re-Formulation of the Second Thermodynamics Law or a Step to Great Unification?. 2019. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21100918
The article explains that the principle quantifies the thermodynamic energy cost required to record or erase a bit of information.
Bormashenko E. Landauer Bound in the Context of Minimal Physical Principles: Meaning, Experimental Verification, Controversies and Perspectives.. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/e26050423
The paper confirms that the principle defines the theoretical minimum limit of energy consumption necessary for irreversible computational changes.
Yan LL, Wang LY, Su SL, Zhou F, Feng M. Verification of Information Thermodynamics in a Trapped Ion System.. 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24060813
The work discusses quantum information thermodynamics and the experimental verification of the Landauer principle.
Herrera L. Modified Landauer Principle According to Tsallis Entropy.. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/e26110931
The article reaffirms that the principle establishes a lower bound on the energy dissipated when erasing information.
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