Landauer's principle
Landauer's principle proper noun: the principle that any logically irreversible manipulation of information must entail an increase in the entropy of the information-processing apparatus or its environment.
Proper noun
Landauer's principle
- The principle that any logically irreversible manipulation of information must entail an increase in the entropy of the information-processing apparatus or its environment.
- Landauer's principle remained untested for over fifty years.2017, Momčilo Gavrilov, Experiments on the Thermodynamics of Information Processing, Springer, page 72
- 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.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
Origin of Landauer's principle
Named after German-American physicist Rolf Landauer (1927–1999), who proposed it in 1961.
Words formed from Landauer's principle
- Landauer's erasure principle
Questions about Landauer's principle
- What does Landauer's principle mean?
- Landauer's principle means the principle that any logically irreversible manipulation of information must entail an increase in the entropy of the information-processing apparatus or its environment.
- What part of speech is Landauer's principle?
- Landauer's principle is a proper noun.
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