An Explanation of the Landauer bound and its ineffectiveness with regard to multivalued logic

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Authors

KYCIA Radoslaw Antoni NIEMCZYNOWCZ Agnieszka

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Technical Transactions
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://doi.org/10.37705/TechTrans/e2020042
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.37705/TechTrans/e2020042
Keywords Landauer’s principle; entropy; multivalued logic; encoding; the second law of thermodynamics; thermodynamic memory implementation; Galois connection
Description We discuss, using recent results on the thermodynamics of multivalued logic, the difficulties and pitfalls of how to apply the Landauer’s principle to thermodynamic computer memory models. The presentation is based on Szilard’s version of Maxwell’s demon experiment and use of equilibrium Thermodynamics. Different versions of thermodynamic/mechanical memory are presented – a one-hot encoding version and an implementation based on a reversed Szilard’s experiment. The relationship of the Landauer’s principle to the Galois connection is explained in detail.
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