Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Essex
Article title
Differential temperature Carnot heat analysis shows that computing machines are thermodynamically irreversible
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Optics Communications
Article number
-
Volume number
281
Issue number
13
First page of article
3440
ISSN of journal
00304018
Year of publication
2008
URL
-
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
<01> This paper was the first to formally link the classic thermodynamics of the Carnot cycle with the controversial question of whether computation is reversible or not. We showed that computation is fundamentally irreversible, which overturned the majority of current thinking.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
B - Communications Systems
Citation count
5
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
