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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,...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 6; pp. 18 - 20
Main Author: Krakovsky, Marina
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2021
Subjects:
Quantum computing
Quantum mechanics
Thermodynamics
Computer input-output equipment
Maxwell equations
Landauer, Rolf
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.