On Brownian computation
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On Brownian computation
as a way of demonstrating that logically reversible mathematical operations can be computed by physical processes that are thermodynamically reversible, or nearly so. In a recent paper 4 , I have argued that the computational processes they describe are not thermodynamically reversible and that their misidentification rested on a misapplication of thermal and statistical physics. A question lef...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2010-1945,2010-1945
DOI: 10.1142/s2010194514603664