"Landauer's principle" meaning in English

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          "word": "Landauer's erasure principle"
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          "text": "Landauer's principle remained untested for over fifty years.",
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          "text": "2018, Michael P. Frank, Physical Foundations of Landauer's Principle, Jarkko Kari, Irek Ulidowski (editors), Reversible Computation: 10th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS, page 5,\nThus, the usual arguments for Landauer's Principle and reversible computing that do not address this case are overly simplistic; later, we will discuss how to generalize and repair them."
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          "ref": "2022, Philipp Strasberg, Quantum Stochastic Thermodynamics, Oxford University Press, page 53",
          "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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          "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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