Physical Limits of Computation - Journal of Quantum Information Science

JQIS > Vol.7 No.4, December 2017

Physical Limits of Computation ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jqis.2017.74012 932 Downloads 2,764 Views

Author(s)

Tibor Guba¹, László Nánai^2*, Thomas F. George³

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
²Department of Experimental Physics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
³Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.

ABSTRACT

The paper deals with theoretical treatment of physical limits for computation. We are using some statements on base of min energy/bit, power delay product, Shannon entropy and Heisenberg uncertainty principle which result in about kTln(2) energy for a bit of information.

KEYWORDS

Computation, Power Product, Entropy, SNL Limit

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Guba, T. , Nánai, L. and F. George, T. (2017) Physical Limits of Computation. Journal of Quantum Information Science, 7, 155-159. doi: 10.4236/jqis.2017.74012.

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