Revisiting the Monge Problem in the Landauer Limit

Abstract

We discuss the Monge problem of mass transportation in the framework of stochastic thermodynamics and revisit the problem of the Landauer limit for finite-time thermodynamics, a problem that got the interest of Krzysztof Gawedzki in the last years. We show that restricted to one dimension, optimal transportation is efficiently solved numerically by well-known methods from differential equations. We add a brief discussion about the relevance this has on optimising the processing in modern computers.