  Information is physical but information is also processed in finite time.
Where computing protocols are concerned, finite-time processing in the quantum
regime can dynamically generate coherence. Here we show that this can have
significant thermodynamic implications. We demonstrate that quantum coherence
generated in the energy eigenbasis of a system undergoing a finite-time
information erasure protocol yields rare events with extreme dissipation. These
fluctuations are of purely quantum origin. By studying the full statistics of
the dissipated heat in the slow driving limit, we prove that coherence provides
a non-negative contribution to all statistical cumulants. Using the simple and
paradigmatic example of single bit erasure, we show that these extreme
dissipation events yield distinct, experimentally distinguishable signatures.
