论文标题
shakin'遍地:证明兰道的原则而没有忽视波动
Shakin' All Over: Proving Landauer's Principle without neglect of fluctuations
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论文摘要
Landauer的原则是大致的原则,即与实施逻辑上不可逆的操作相关的熵成本。尽管在有关计算的热力学的文献中被广泛接受,但它一直是哲学文献中存在很大争议的主题。如果是正确的,则质疑该原则的证据及其相关性。特别是,有人认为,微观的波动需要大大超过陆路界的耗散。在本文中,Landauer的原则在统计力学中得到了处理,并且证明既不依赖于忽视波动,也不依赖于热力学可逆的过程的可用性。此外,有人认为,微观波动并不是近似热力学可逆性的障碍
Landauer's principle is, roughly, the principle that there is an entropic cost associated with implementation of logically irreversible operations. Though widely accepted in the literature on the thermodynamics of computation, it has been the subject of considerable dispute in the philosophical literature. Both the cogency of proofs of the principle and its relevance, should it be true, have been questioned. In particular, it has been argued that microscale fluctuations entail dissipation that always greatly exceeds the Landauer bound. In this article Landauer's principle is treated within statistical mechanics, and a proof is given that neither relies on neglect of fluctuations nor assumes the availability of thermodynamically reversible processes. In addition, it is argued that microscale fluctuations are no obstacle to approximating thermodynamic reversibility as closely as one would like