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Landauer Principle: Re-Formulation of the Second Thermodynamics Law or a Step to Great Unification?

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02 August 2019

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05 August 2019

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Abstract
The Landauer principle supplies the estimation of the minimal mass of a particle which is capable to record/erase information within a thermal bath at the temperature of T. Particles lighter than m ˜ 0 = k B Tln2 c 2 will not transform the information to the surrounding bodies and are well expected to be undetectable. The relation of the Landauer principle to the problem of “dark matter” is discussed. The maximal informational content of a particle at rest, estimated as I max = m 0 c 2 k B Tkn2 is introduced. The Landauer principle also allows the estimation of minimal energy of the field which is capable to record/erase 1 bit of information in the surrounding at the temperature of T. The relativistic aspects of the Landauer principle and its relation to the relativistic transformation of temperature are addressed.
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