Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9742849 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 2005 20 Pages PDF
Abstract
Landauer erasure seems to provide a powerful link between thermodynamics and information processing (logical computation). The only logical operations that require a generation of heat are logically irreversible ones, with the minimum heat generation being kTln2 per bit of information lost. Nevertheless, it will be shown that logical reversibility neither implies, nor is implied by thermodynamic reversibility. By examining thermodynamically reversible operations which are logically irreversible, it is possible to show that information and entropy, while having the same form, are conceptually different.
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