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In 1961 Landauer published its most famous work where he established a relation between information and physical entropy. While it is clear nowadays that a net entropy reduction on a physical system implies the dissipation of a certain amount of energy, this statement extended to logic gates is still somehow controversial. In this paper we present an experimental demonstration of the lack of linkage between informational and physical entropy in irreversible computing logic gates.
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Gammaitoni, L., Neri, I., López-Suárez, M. (2017). Computing Below the Expected Energy Limits. In: In, V., Longhini, P., Palacios, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND 2016). ICAND 2016. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52621-8_10
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