The connection between logical and thermodynamic irreversibility

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.03.007zbMath1223.80002OpenAlexW2172255023MaRDI QIDQ643128

Stuart Presnell, James Ladyman, Berry Groisman, Anthony J. Short

Publication date: 27 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2689/1/irreversibility%28rev2%29.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

entropythermodynamicsinformationirreversibilitycomputationLandauer's principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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