Understanding the thermodynamic cost of resetting via time-varying harmonic traps has many parallels to the finite-time Landauer erasure principle, which sets a bound on the energy cost of information erasure over finite durations. In this study, the authors examine the thermodynamic costs of such a setup by deriving a moment generating function for the work cost of recurrently changing the trap stiffness in finite-time, thereby obtaining the cost of erasing a non-equilibrium state over finite durations.
- Deepak Gupta
- Kristian Stølevik Olsen
- Supriya Krishnamurthy
