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« Information and Thermodynamics : experimental aspects in small systems”

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Séminaire Fédération Fabri de Peiresc

« Information and Thermodynamics : experimental aspects in small systems”

Orateur : Sergio Ciliberto
Directeur de recherche, Laboratoire de physique ENS Lyon

Vendredi 22 Janvier 2016
Salle de séminaire IRPHE

PLUS D’INFOS

During this talk we will recall the relationship between information and thermodynamics. We will then discuss a specific example of the measure of the Landauer’s bound.  Rolf Landauer argued that the erasure of information is a dissipative process . A minimal quantity of heat, proportional to the thermal energy, is necessarily produced when a classical bit of information is deleted. A direct consequence of this logically irreversible transformation is that the entropy of the environment increases unavoidably by a finite amount. We experimentally show the existence of the Landauer bound in a generic model of a one-bit memory. Using a system of a single colloidal particle trapped in a modulated double-well potential, we establish that the mean dissipated heat saturates at the Landauer bound in the limit of long erasure cycles. This result demonstrates the intimate link between information theory and thermodynamics. For a memory erasure procedure, which is a logically irreversible operation, a detailed Jarzynski Equality is verified, retrieving the Landauer limit independently of the work done on the system.

References :

Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics, A. Bérut, A. Arakelyan, A. Petrosyan, S. Ciliberto, R. Dillenschneider, E. Lutz, Nature , 483, 187–189 (08 March 2012).

Detailed Jarzynski Equality applied to a Logically Irreversible Procedure, A. Bérut, A. Petrosyan, S. Ciliberto, EPL, 103 (2013) 60002