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On the Precise Link Between Energy and Information
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: Received: 8 January 2024 / Approved: 10 January 2024 / Online: 10 January 2024 (10:01:46 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 13 January 2024 / Approved: 15 January 2024 / Online: 15 January 2024 (08:23:04 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 13 January 2024 / Approved: 15 January 2024 / Online: 15 January 2024 (08:23:04 CET)
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Witkowski, C.; Brown, S.; Truong, K. On the Precise Link between Energy and Information. Entropy 2024, 26, 203. Witkowski, C.; Brown, S.; Truong, K. On the Precise Link between Energy and Information. Entropy 2024, 26, 203.
Abstract
We present a modified version of the Szilard Engine, demonstrating that an explicit measurement procedure is entirely unnecessary for its operation. By considering our modified engine, we are able to provide a new interpretation of Landauer’s original argument for the cost of erasure. From this view, we demonstrate that a reset operation is strictly impossible in a dynamical system with only conservative forces. Then, we prove that to approach a reset yields an unavoidable instability at the reset point. Finally, we present an original proof of Landauer’s principle that is completely independent from the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Keywords
Maxwell’s Demon; Landauer’s Principle; Szilard’s Engine; Erasure; Cost; Energy; Information; Measurement
Subject
Physical Sciences, Thermodynamics
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