landauer's principle
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Very rare
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25
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18
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4
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Meaning
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The principle that any logically irreversible manipulation of information must entail an increase in the entropy of the information-processing apparatus or its environment.
Example Sentences
- "Landauer's principle remained untested for over fifty years."
- "2018, Michael P. Frank, Physical Foundations of Landauer's Principle, Jarkko Kari, Irek Ulidowski (editors), Reversible Computation: 10th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS, page 5, Thus, the usual arguments for Landauer's Principle and reversible computing that do not address this case are overly simplistic; later, we will discuss how to generalize and repair them."
- "Equation (2.27) is often referred to as Landauer's principle. In retrospect, one could object that Landauer's principle is a mere tautology. If one accepts the notion of Shannon entropy as non-equilibrium thermodynamic entropy, then Landauer's principle is nothing but the second law (2.24) of non-equilibrium thermodynamics applied to a special situation."
Etymology
Phrases
Landauer's erasure principle
Landauer limit