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26 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 23 July 2015 10:01AM

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Comment author: V_V 27 July 2015 03:54:56PM -1 points [-]

Energy to switch 1 bit > 100 k_B T ln(2)

Not my field of expertise, but I don't understand where this bound comes form. In this paper for short erasure cycles they find an exponential law, although they don't give the constants (I suppose they are system-dependent).