{"id":216629,"date":"2025-06-26T01:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-new-approach-to-probing-landauers-principle-in-the-quantum-many-body-regime"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:19:35","slug":"a-new-approach-to-probing-landauers-principle-in-the-quantum-many-body-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-new-approach-to-probing-landauers-principle-in-the-quantum-many-body-regime","title":{"rendered":"A new approach to probing Landauer\u2019s principle in the quantum many-body regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-approach-to-probing-landauers-principle-in-the-quantum-many-body-regime.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Landauer\u2019s principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of information from an information system results in the dissipation of at least a specific amount (i.e., <i>k<\/i><sub>B<\/sub><i>T<\/i>ln2) of energy. This principle has so far been primarily considered in the context of classical computers and information processing systems.<\/p>\n<p>Yet researchers at TU Vienna, the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, the University of British Columbia, the University of Crete and the Universit\u00e0 di Pavia recently extended Landauer\u2019s principle to quantum many-body systems, systems made up of many interacting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum particles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-02930-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, introduces a viable approach to experimentally probe this crucial principle in a quantum regime and test <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+predictions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical predictions<\/a> rooted in quantum thermodynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landauer\u2019s principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of information from an information system results in the dissipation of at least a specific amount (i.e., kBTln2) of energy. This principle has so far been primarily considered in the context of classical computers and information processing systems. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}