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Information Processing and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: An Inclusive, Hamiltonian Approach
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2020
We obtain generalizations of the Kelvin-Planck, Clausius, and Carnot statements of the second law of thermodynamics for situations involving information processing. To this end, we consider an information reservoir (representing, e.g., a memory device) alongside the heat and work reservoirs that appear in traditional thermodynamic analyses. We derive our results within an inclusive framework in which all participating elements—the system or device of interest, together with the heat, work, and
doi:10.13016/m2jj1b-wxlt
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