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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Volume 47, Issue 6, Pages 1692-1698Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10773-007-9610-0
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black hole thermodynamics; Landauer's principle; erasure
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We consider the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics in the light of quantum information theory, in particular information erasure and Landauer's principle (namely, that erasure of information produces at least the equivalent amount of entropy). A small quantum system outside a black hole in the Hartle-Hawking state is studied, and the quantum system comes into thermal equilibrium with the radiation surrounding the black hole. For this scenario, we present a simple proof of the generalized second law based on quantum relative entropy. We then analyze the corresponding information erasure process, and confirm our proof of the generalized second law by applying Landauer's principle.
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