Figure 2
From: Heat production and error probability relation in Landauer reset at effective temperature
Reset protocol.
(a) Protocol used to perform the reset operation. In order to account for all the possible transitions we considered the reset to 1 (first two columns) and reset to 0 (last two columns) starting from both 0 and 1 states. The first row depict the protocol used for removing the barrier. Once the barrier is removed a lateral force is applied (second row). The resulting displacement of the cantilever tip is represented in the third row. Once all the forces are removed and the barrier is restored the cantilever tip encodes the final state. (b) Schematic time evolution of the potential energy and state of the system for the case presented in the first column of panel (a). The operation starts from a double well potential and in the first step of the protocol the barrier is removed. During the next step the potential is tilted and the barrier is restored to its initial value. Finally, the lateral force is removed recovering the initial condition where the barrier between wells is at its maximum and the electrostatic forces are equal to zero.
