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physics.gen-ph2026
Disentangling Brillouin's negentropy law of information and Landauer's law on data erasure
Didier Lairez
The link between information and energy introduces the observer and their knowledge into the understanding of a fundamental quantity of physics. Two approaches compete to account f…
physics.gen-ph2024
The fundamental difference between logical and thermodynamic irreversibilities, or, Why Landauer's result cannot be a physical principle
Didier Lairez
Landauer's "principle" claims that erasing one bit of information necessarily dissipates at least Tln2 of heat into the surroundings, making a possibly logically irreversible opera…