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Landauer's principle at zero temperature

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arxiv 1911.00910 v3 pith:WAXWD6KZ submitted 2019-11-03 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech

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Landauer's bound relates changes in the entropy of a system with the inevitable dissipation of heat to the environment. The bound, however, becomes trivial in the limit of zero temperature. Here we show that it is possible to derive a tighter bound which remains non-trivial even as $T\to 0$. As in the original case, the only assumption we make is that the environment is in a thermal state. Nothing is said about the state of the system or the kind of system-environment interaction. Our bound is valid for all temperatures and is always tighter than the original one, tending to it in the limit of high temperatures.

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