Landauer limit

noun

Etymology

After Landauer's principle, named after German-American physicist Rolf Landauer.

Definitions

  1. 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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