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Entropy generation in a model of reversible computation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2006

Diego de Falco and
Dario Tamascelli
Diego de Falco
Affiliation:
CIMAINA, Centro Interdisciplinare Materiali e Interfacce Nanostrutturati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Comelico 39, 20135 Milano, Italy; defalco@dsi.unimi.it
Dario Tamascelli
Affiliation:
CIMAINA, Centro Interdisciplinare Materiali e Interfacce Nanostrutturati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.Dipartimento di Matematica “F. Enriques”, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy; tama@mat.unimi.it
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Abstract

We present a model in which, due to the quantum nature of the signals controlling the implementation time of successive unitary computational steps, physical irreversibility appears in the execution of a logically reversible computation.

Keywords

Clockentropy.

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