Looking at nature as a computer

DOI10.1023/A:1024403618093MaRDI QIDQ1404044zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Norman H. Margolus

Publication date 20 August 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024403618093

zbMATH Keywords

actioncellular automatonenergyentropyinformationquantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cellular automata (computational aspects) (68Q80) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum computation (81P68) Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B99) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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