Brownian computation is thermodynamically irreversible

DOI10.1007/S10701-013-9753-1MaRDI QIDQ2015104zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John D. Norton

Publication date 18 June 2014

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-013-9753-1

zbMATH Keywords

entropyfluctuationsthermodynamics of computationBrownian computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10)

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