Taking the Heat: Maxwell's demon and the high cost of erasure.
The article discusses the challenges of quantum computing, particularly concerning problems associated with thermodynamics and heat management as related to the physical hardware required for quantum computing. The article cites a study regarding the connection between erasures and heat dissipation,...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 6; pp. 18 - 20 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jun2021
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the challenges of quantum computing, particularly concerning problems associated with thermodynamics and heat management as related to the physical hardware required for quantum computing. The article cites a study regarding the connection between erasures and heat dissipation, identifies a paradox formed by physicist James Clerk Maxwell, and the erasure principle outlined by Rolf Landauer. |
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