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SUBMITTER: Faist P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4506503 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Faist Philippe P Dupuis Frédéric F Oppenheim Jonathan J Renner Renato R
Nature communications 20150707
Irreversible information processing cannot be carried out without some inevitable thermodynamical work cost. This fundamental restriction, known as Landauer's principle, is increasingly relevant today, as the energy dissipation of computing devices impedes the development of their performance. Here we determine the minimal work required to carry out any logical process, for instance a computation. It is given by the entropy of the discarded information conditional to the output of the computatio ...[more]