Comments on the breakdown of the Landauer bound for information erasure in the quantum regime

2007/06/14 by Elias P. Gyftopoulos, Gyftopoulos, Elias P., Michael R. von Spakovsky +1
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum and electron transport phenomena

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0706.2176

Abstract

Upon reviewing the article by Allahverdyan and Nieuwenhuizen in PRE, we conclude that neither the Landauer principle nor the counterexamples presented by the authors have any relation (i) to thermodynamics, and (ii) to the interdependence of nonstatistical quantum physics and thermodynamics.

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