The costs of information processing in an information ratchet system

• Main Author: Cheong, Jian Wei
• Other Authors: Chew Lock Yue
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics::Heat and thermodynamics; DRNTU::Science::Physics::Atomic physics::Statistical physics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77097
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Landauer's Principle states that the erasure of a bit of information must dissipates \( k_B \ln2 \) amount of entropy. This spawned the field of information thermodynamics, studying how information are processed, and how it relates to the entropy of a thermodynamic system. However, Landauer...