See Landauer's principle on Wiktionary
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"text": "Equation (2.27) is often referred to as Landauer's principle.\nIn retrospect, one could object that Landauer's principle is a mere tautology. If one accepts the notion of Shannon entropy as non-equilibrium thermodynamic entropy, then Landauer's principle is nothing but the second law (2.24) of non-equilibrium thermodynamics applied to a special situation.",
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