Published March 2020
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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of erasure with superconducting flux logic
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Abstract
We implement a thermal-fluctuation-driven logical bit reset on a superconducting flux logic cell. We show that the logical state of the system can be continuously monitored with only a small perturbation to the thermally activated dynamics at 500 mK. We use the trajectory information to derive a single-shot estimate of the work performed on the system per logical cycle. We acquire a sample of 10⁵ erasure trajectories per protocol and show that the work histograms agree with both microscopic theory and global fluctuation theorems. The results demonstrate how to design and diagnose complex, high-speed, and thermodynamically efficient computing using superconducting technology.
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© 2020 Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Received 30 September 2019; accepted 20 January 2020; published 3 March 2020. We thank A. Boyd and C. Jarzynski for helpful discussions. J.P.C. thanks the Santa Fe Institute and J.P.C., O.-P.S., M.H.M., R.K., W.F., G.W., and M.L.R. thank the Telluride Science Research Center for their hospitality during visits. This material is based upon work supported by, or in part by, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Research Office under Contracts No. W911NF-13-1-0390 and No. W911NF-18-1-0028.Attached Files
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- Army Research Laboratory
- W911NF-13-1-0390
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- W911NF-18-1-0028
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2019-12-17Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering