Information and physics
Authors:
- Radosław A. Kycia,
- Agnieszka Niemczynowicz
Abstract
This is an overview article that contains the discussion of the connection between information and physics at the elementary level. We present a derivation of Landauer’s bound for heat emission during irreversible logical operation. In this computation the Szilard’s version of Maxwell’s demon paradox is used as a model to design thermodynamic implementation of a single bit of computer memory. Landauer’s principle also motivates the discussion on the practical and emergent nature of the information. Apart from physics, the principle has implications in philosophy.
- Record ID
- CUT20bf4747c5794ac68035bf49e40bb067
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, ISSN 0867-8286, e-ISSN 2451-0602
- Issue year
- 2020
- No
- 69
- Pages
- 237-252
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 249-252; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - No. 69
- Substantive notes
- Section: Articles
- Keywords in English
- lindauer’s principle, entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, memory, information
- URL
- https://zfn.edu.pl/index.php/zfn/article/view/513 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 70
- Publication indicators
- = 4
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT20bf4747c5794ac68035bf49e40bb067/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT20bf4747c5794ac68035bf49e40bb067
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