Refining Landauer’s Stack: Balancing Error and Dissipation When Erasing Information

Nonequilibrium information thermodynamics determines the minimum energy dissipation to reliably erase memory under time-symmetric control protocols. We demonstrate that its bounds are tight and so show costs overwhelm those implied by Landauer's bound on erasure. Moreover, in limit of perfect computation, diverge. The conclusion is time-asymmetric protocols should be developed for efficient, accurate thermodynamic computing. And, Stack -- full suite theoretically-predicted ready experimental test calibration.