Uncertainty principle and minimal energy dissipation in the computer

DOI10.1007/BF01857731zbMath0485.68043MaRDI QIDQ1164418

Rolf Landauer

Publication date: 1982

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

degrees of freedomreversible computationphysical structureBennett-Fredkin-Turing machinedissipationless computerinformation-bearinginitial kinetic energyquantum mechanical computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication, information (94A99) Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99) Theory of software (68N99)

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Quantum neural network, Computing with energy and chemical reactions, Quantum mechanical Hamiltonian models of Turing machines

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