Minimum energy requirements of information transfer and computing
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The speed with which a physical device can process information is limited by its energy.
“In particular, the speed with which a physical device can process information is limited by its energy 11 -26 and the amount of information that it can process is limited by the number of degrees of freedom it possesses 5 -40 .”
From Ultimate physical limits to computation (2000) · cites this paper as [19]
The laws of quantum mechanics determine the maximum rate at which a system with spread in energy ΔE can move from one distinguishable state to another.
“The problem of how much energy is required for information processing was first investigated in the context of communications theory by Levitin 11 -16 , Bremermann 17 -19 , Beckenstein 20 -22 and others, who showed that the laws of quantum mechanics determine the maximum rate at which a system with spread in energy ∆ E can move from one distinguishable state to another.”
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- Authors
- Bremermann, H. J.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bremermann, Hans J.
- Venue
- International Journal of Theoretical Physics
- Published
- 1982-04
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 203-217
- ISSN
- 0020-7748 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-9575
- OpenAlex
- W2085235979
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- International Journal of Theoretical Physics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
- Keywords
- minimum energy requirement, information transmission, computing, time-energy uncertainty relation, energy efficiency, information theory
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