Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics

Antoine Bérut, Artak Arakelyan, Artyom Petrosyan, Sergio Ciliberto, Raoul Dillenschneider and Eric Lutz ()
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Antoine Bérut: Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure
Artak Arakelyan: Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure
Artyom Petrosyan: Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure
Sergio Ciliberto: Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure
Raoul Dillenschneider: University of Kaiserslautern
Eric Lutz: University of Augsburg

Nature, 2012, vol. 483, issue 7388, 187-189

Abstract: Experimental demonstration of the Landauer bound in a generic one-bit memory—linking the erasure of information to the production of heat and, thus, entropy—confirms the connection between information theory and thermodynamics.

Date: 2012
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