Extra cost of erasure due to quantum lifetime broadening
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| author | Dunlop, Joe Cerisola, Federico Monsel, Juliette Sevitz, Sofia Tabanera-Bravo, Jorge Dexter, Jonathan Fedele, Federico Ares, Natalia Anders, Janet |
| author_facet | Dunlop, Joe Cerisola, Federico Monsel, Juliette Sevitz, Sofia Tabanera-Bravo, Jorge Dexter, Jonathan Fedele, Federico Ares, Natalia Anders, Janet |
| contents | The energy cost of erasing a bit of information was fundamentally lower bounded by Landauer, in terms of the temperature of its environment: $W\geq k_\mathrm{B} T \ln 2$. However, in real electronic devices, the information-bearing system is usually in contact with two or more electrodes, with different temperatures and chemical potentials. It is not clear what sets the cost of erasure in such nonequilibrium situations. One promising technology for testing the thermodynamic limits of information processing is quantum dots, in which a bit is encoded in the presence or absence of a single electron. We here develop a thermodynamic description of devices of this type and find that, in addition to the electrode temperatures, the potential difference across the quantum dot and lifetime broadening of its energy level contribute to the minimum work cost of erasure. In practical contexts, these contributions may significantly outweigh the cost due to temperature alone. |
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| spellingShingle | Extra cost of erasure due to quantum lifetime broadening Dunlop, Joe Cerisola, Federico Monsel, Juliette Sevitz, Sofia Tabanera-Bravo, Jorge Dexter, Jonathan Fedele, Federico Ares, Natalia Anders, Janet Quantum Physics The energy cost of erasing a bit of information was fundamentally lower bounded by Landauer, in terms of the temperature of its environment: $W\geq k_\mathrm{B} T \ln 2$. However, in real electronic devices, the information-bearing system is usually in contact with two or more electrodes, with different temperatures and chemical potentials. It is not clear what sets the cost of erasure in such nonequilibrium situations. One promising technology for testing the thermodynamic limits of information processing is quantum dots, in which a bit is encoded in the presence or absence of a single electron. We here develop a thermodynamic description of devices of this type and find that, in addition to the electrode temperatures, the potential difference across the quantum dot and lifetime broadening of its energy level contribute to the minimum work cost of erasure. In practical contexts, these contributions may significantly outweigh the cost due to temperature alone. |
| title | Extra cost of erasure due to quantum lifetime broadening |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02546 |