Critical Remarks on Landauer's principle of erasure-dissipation Including notes on Maxwell demons and Szilard engines Conference Paper

abstract

• 2015 IEEE. We briefly address Landauer's Principle and some related issues in thermal demons. We show that an error-free Turing computer works in the zero-entropy limit, which proves Landauer's derivation incorrect. To have a physical logic gate, memory or information-engine, a few essential components necessary for the operation of these devices are often neglected, such as various aspects of control, damping and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We also point out that bit erasure is typically not needed or used for the functioning of computers or engines (except for secure erasure).

name of conference

• 2015 International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF)

authors

• Khatri, Sunil
• Kish, Laszlo

published proceedings

• 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NOISE AND FLUCTUATIONS (ICNF)

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Kish, L. B., Granqvist, C. G., Khatri, S. P., & Smulko, J. M.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Kish, LB||Granqvist, CG||Khatri, SP||Smulko, JM

publication date

• June 2015

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

keywords

• Control
• Dissipation
• Entropy
• Noise

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/icnf.2015.7288632

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781467383356

start page

• 1

end page

• 4

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1109%2Ficnf.2015.7288632