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Energy transfer and information transmission are two fundamental aspects of nature. They are seemingly unrelated, while recent findings suggest that a deep connection between them is to be discovered. This amounts to asking: Can we phrase the processes of transmitting classical bits equivalently as specific energy-transmitting tasks, thereby uncovering foundational links between them? We answer this question positively by showing that, for a broad class of classical communication tasks, a quantum dynamics' ability to transmit n bits of classical information is equivalent to its ability to transmit n units of energy in a thermodynamic task. This finding not only provides an analytical correspondence between information transmission and energy extraction tasks, but also quantifies classical communication by thermodynamics. Furthermore, our findings uncover the dynamical version of Landauer's principle, showing the strong link between transmitting information and energy.

This presentation will cover results from the following papers:

[1] C.-Y. Hsieh, Dynamical Landauer principle: Quantifying information transmission by thermodynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050404 (2025).

[2] C.-Y. Hsieh, Dynamical Landauer principle: Thermodynamic criteria of transmitting classical information, Phys. Rev. A 111, 022207 (2025).