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In my attempt to erase memory, I noticed that erasure protocols that differ subtly give measurably different values for the asymptotic work, a result I explain by showing that one protocol is symmetric with the respect to time reversal, while the other is not. The differences between the protocols help clarify the distinctions between thermodynamic and logical reversibility. Here, I compare thermodynamically reversible and irreversible protocol using computer simulations.
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Gavrilov, M. (2017). Thermodynamical and Logical Irreversibility. In: Experiments on the Thermodynamics of Information Processing. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63694-8_6
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