Minimum energy requirements of information transfer and computing (Q796490)

The author is developing further his idea that the quantum-mechanical time-energy uncertainty relation can be interpreted as generating a quantum noise in a signal transmitting system, so that Shannon's theory of the transmission capacity over a noisy, continuous channel can be applied to the problem. It is shown that the singnal-to-noise power ratio equals 4\(\pi\), which results in an upper limit of information transmission of \(C\leq(mc^ 2/h)\ln(1+4\pi),\) where C, according to Shannon's formula for the capacity C of a noisy channel, is \[ C=bandwidth\times \log(1+(S/N)), \] where bandwidth is the width of the frequency band transmitted, and S/N is the signal-to-noise power ratio.