Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics

The work

AuthorsAntoine Bérut; A. V. Arakelyan; Artyom Petrosyan; S. Ciliberto; Raoul Dillenschneider; Eric Lutz
Editors
Typearticle
Year2012
Citekeyberut2012experimental

Where it appeared

Published inNature
PublisherNature Portfolio
Volume483
Issue7388
Pages187--189

Identifiers

DOI10.1038/nature10872
OpenAlexW2154550634
ISSN0028-0836

Settled

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Related

Distinct fromberut2015information The Nature letter and the full account of the same experiment. berut2012experimental is the 2012 measurement of Landauer's bound in a colloidal-particle memory, four pages and held as a citation only; this is the same group's 27-page treatment in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics three years later, with the experiment set out at length. The corpus can read the second and not the first.
Distinct fromlandauer1961irreversibility The bound and its measurement, fifty-one years apart. Landauer 1961 argues that a logically irreversible operation must dissipate of order kT; this paper measures that dissipation with a single colloidal particle in a double-well trap and finds the bound holds.

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Cite it as

@article{berut2012experimental,
  title        = {Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics},
  author       = {Antoine Bérut and A. V. Arakelyan and Artyom Petrosyan and S. Ciliberto and Raoul Dillenschneider and Eric Lutz},
  year         = {2012},
  journal      = {Nature},
  publisher    = {Nature Portfolio},
  volume       = {483},
  number       = {7388},
  pages        = {187--189},
  issn         = {0028-0836},
  doi          = {10.1038/nature10872},
}

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