Minimum energy requirements of information transfer and computing

DOI10.1007/BF01857726MaRDI QIDQ796490zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hans J. Bremermann

Publication date 1982

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01857726

zbMATH Keywords

computersquantum noisequantum-mechanical time-energy uncertainty relationsingnal-to-noise power ratioupper limit of information transmission

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of software (68N99) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Information theory (general) (94A15) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Review text

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.

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