A note on the Landauer principle in quantum statistical mechanics

The Landauer resistivity on quantum wires

On Landauer principle and bound for infinite systems

Landauer principle provides a link between Shannon information entropy and Clausius thermodynamical entropy. We set up here a basic formula for the incremental free energy of a quantum channel, possibly relative to infinite systems, naturally arising by an Operator Algebraic point of view. By the Tomita-Takesaki modular theory, we can indeed describe a canonical evolution associated with a quan...

The physics of forgetting: Landauer’s erasure principle and information theory

This article discusses the concept of information and its intimate relationship with physics. After an introduction of all the necessary quantum mechanical and information theoretical concepts we analyse Landauer’ s principle which states that the erasure of information is inevitably accompanied by the generation of heat. We employ this principle to rederive a number of results in classical and...

From Quantum Mechanics Postulate to Landauer’s Erasure Principle

Landauer argues that since erasure is a logical function that does not have a single-valued inverse it must be associated with physical irreversibility and therefore require heat dissipation. It is widely accepted that quantum mechanics is our most accurate description of our world. Can Landauer’s erasure principle be deduced by the quantum mechanics if we accept the completeness of quantum the...

Electronic transport in Si and Au monoatomic chains considering strongly correlation effect, a first principle study

We have investigated structure and electronic properties of Au and Si liner chains using the firstprinciplesplane wave pseudopotential method. The transport properties and conductance of these twoliner chains are studied using Landauer approaches based on density functional theory (DFT). Weobtain density of states and band gap using Kohn-Sham and Wannier functions as well as quantumconductivity...