Landauer limit
nounEtymology
After Landauer's principle, named after German-American physicist Rolf Landauer.
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A theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from…
A theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from Landauer's principle.
- This Landauer limit is simply an energy, given in equation form as kTln2 . The quantity k is a constant of nature called Boltzmann's constant. The T is the environmental temperature in Kelvin, and ln2 is the natural logarithm of two.
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