If you can only erase bits 100 at a time, you don’t really have 100 bits, do you?
Now we set things up so that the 2100−1 bit strings that aren’t all zeros have an energy of ΔE and the all-zeros bit string has an energy of 0.
Now your thermal state just equalizes probabilities across those nonzero bit strings.
If you can only erase bits 100 at a time, you don’t really have 100 bits, do you?
Now your thermal state just equalizes probabilities across those nonzero bit strings.