Information is fundamentally related to energy through thermodynamic principles
Information is fundamentally tied to energy and thermodynamics, as established by Landauer's principle and information thermodynamics.
The retrieved papers consistently demonstrate that information processing, such as bit erasure or uncertainty reduction, has a fundamental thermodynamic cost governed by principles like Landauer's principle. These studies collectively confirm an intimate, quantifiable link between information theory, entropy, and energy dissipation.
Long Yan, T. Xiong, K. Rehan, F. Zhou, D. Liang, D. Liang, Longwei Chen, J. Zhang, Wanli Yang, Zhihao Ma, M. Feng. Single-Atom Demonstration of the Quantum Landauer Principle.. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.210601
Demonstrates that the quantum Landauer principle links the energy cost of information erasure to entropy change in a quantized environment.
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E. Bormashenko. The Landauer Principle: Re-Formulation of the Second Thermodynamics Law or a Step to Great Unification?. 2019. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21100918
Explains how the Landauer principle establishes that information has physical and energy equivalents, tying information to thermodynamic laws.
Stefan Aimet, Mohammadamin Tajik, G. Tournaire, Philipp Schuttelkopf, João Sabino, S. Sotiriadis, Giacomo Guarnieri, Jorg Schmiedmayer, J. Eisert. Experimentally probing Landauer’s principle in the quantum many-body regime. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02930-9
Shows that Landauer's principle bridges information theory and thermodynamics by linking system entropy changes to energy dissipation.
Lei-Lei Yan, Lv-Yun Wang, S. Su, F. Zhou, M. Feng. Verification of Information Thermodynamics in a Trapped Ion System. 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24060813
Highlights how information thermodynamics connects thermodynamic processes such as energy transfer and entropy flow with information variation.
Junjie Liu, Hanlin Nie. Universal Landauer-like inequality from the first law of thermodynamics. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.108.l040203
Establishes a universal Landauer-like inequality directly linking system entropy and energy changes using thermodynamic laws.
Luis Herrera. Modified Landauer Principle According to Tsallis Entropy. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/e26110931
Discusses the generalization of the Landauer principle and how the energy dissipated in information erasure is fundamentally related to entropy definitions.
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