The physics of implementing logic: Landauer's principle and the multiple-computations theorem

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2019.07.001zbMATH Open1425.80005OpenAlexW2964252889MaRDI QIDQ2008995FDOQ2008995

Authors: Meir Hemmo, Orly R. Shenker 

Publication date: 26 November 2019

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.07.001

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zbMATH Keywords

entropyLandauer's principlesecond law of thermodynamicsindividuation of computationlogical (ir)reversibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10)

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