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Logical Dissipation of Automata Implements - Dissipation of Computation

Philippe Matherat, Marc-Thierry Jaekel

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9805018

Abstract

As revealed by discussions of principle on energy dissipation by computers, logic imposes constraints on physical systems designed for a logical function. We define a notion of logical dissipation for a finite automaton. We discuss the constraints associated with physical implementation of automata and exhibit the role played by modularity for testability. As a result, practical computers, which are necessarily modular, dissipate proportionally to computation time.

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