Source record / 1961

Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process

Rolf Landauer

Paper

Publication

IBM Journal of Research and Development 5, 183–191 · 1961

DOI: 10.1147/rd.53.0183

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Foundational analysis of logically irreversible erasure; the bound requires specified thermodynamic assumptions.

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