Notes on the history of reversible computation 论文

详细信息

发表期刊/会议

IBM Journal of Research and Development

发表日期

2000-01-01

发表年份

2000

摘要

We review the history of the thermodynamics of information processing, beginning with the paradox of Maxwell's demon; continuing through the efforts of Szilard, Brillouin, and others to demonstrate a thermodynamic cost of information acquisition; the discovery by Landauer of the thermodynamic cost of information destruction; the development of the theory of and classical models for reversible computation; and ending with a brief survey of recent work on quantum reversible computation.