Dissipation in Computation

16 January 1984

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 52 (3) , 232-235
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.232

Abstract

The question of the energy dissipation in the computational process is considered. Contrary to previous studies, dissipation is found to be an integral part of computation. A complementarity is suggested between systems that are describable in thermodynamic terms and systems that can be used for computation.

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