Breakdown of the Landauer bound for information erasure in the quantum regime

Details Breakdown of the Landauer bound for information erasure in the quantum regime Breakdown of the Landauer bound for information erasure in the quantum regime

2000-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0012284v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, revtex, 2 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.056117

A known aspect of the Clausius inequality is that an equilibrium system subjected to a squeezing $\d S$ of its entropy must release at least an amount $|\dbarrm Q|=T|\d S|$ of heat. This serves as a basis for the Landauer principle, which puts a lower bound $T\ln 2$ for the heat generated by erasure of one bit of information. Here we show that in the world of quantum entanglement this law is broken. A quantum Brownian particle interacting with its thermal bath can either generate less heat or even {\it adsorb} heat during an analogous squeezing process, due to entanglement with the bath. The effect exists even for weak but fixed coupling with the bath, provided that temperature is low enough. This invalidates the Landauer bound in the quantum regime, and suggests that quantum carriers of information can be much more efficient than assumed so far.

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