Zero and negative energy dissipation at information-theoretic erasure Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We introduce information-theoretic erasure based on Shannons binary channel formula. It is pointed out that this type of erasure is a natural energy-dissipation-free way in which information is lost in double-potential-well memories, and it may be the reason why the brain can forget things effortlessly. We also demonstrate a new non-volatile, charge-based memory scheme wherein the erasure can be associated with even negative energy dissipation; this implies that the memorys environment is cooled during information erasure and contradicts Landauers principle of erasure dissipation. On the other hand, writing new information into the memory always requires positive energy dissipation in our schemes. Finally, we show a simple system where even a classical erasure process yields negative energy dissipation of arbitrarily large energy.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL ELECTRONICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Kish, L. B., Granqvist, C., Khatri, S. P., & Peper, F.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Kish, Laszlo Bela||Granqvist, Claes-Goran||Khatri, Sunil P||Peper, Ferdinand

publication date

  • March 2016