Equation 91 · Part 2 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole
Symbol Gamma
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Gamma is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Gamma is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
Everything above concerns [] , a bound on unitary orthogonalizations, which cost no minimum heat in principle: a sequence of reversible gates can in principle run adiabatically, with no thermodynamic floor at all beyond the ordinary Levitin-Toffoli rate. Reading out a result, however, generally requires erasing or resetting some register, and that step is bound by a different and independent piece of physics, Landauer’s principle: erasing one bit at local temperature T costs at least T2 of dissipated heat [ 6 ] , made precise with finite-size corrections by Reeb and Wolf [ 7 ] . This bound does not care about horizons at all except through whatever value T takes locally —…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [6] Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process ↗
- [7] An Improved Landauer Principle with Finite-Size Corrections ↗
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