Generalization of the Landauer Principle for Computing Devices Based on Many-Valued Logic

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AuthorsEdward Bormashenko
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Typearticle
Year2019
Citekeybormashenko2019generalization

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Published inEntropy
PublisherMDPI AG
Volume21
Issue12
Pages1150

Identifiers

DOI10.3390/e21121150

Abstract

The Landauer principle asserts that “the information is physical”. In its strict meaning, Landauer’s principle states that there is a minimum possible amount of energy required to erase one bit of information, known as the Landauer bound W = kB Tln2, where T is the temperature of a thermal reservoir used in the process and kB is Boltzmann’s constant. Modern computers use the binary system in which a number is expressed in the base-2 numeral system. We demonstrate that the Landauer principle remains valid for the physical computing device based on the ternary, and more generally, N-based logic. The energy necessary for erasure of one bit of information (the Landauer bound) W = kB Tln2 remains untouched for the computing devices exploiting a many-valued logic.

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@article{bormashenko2019generalization,
  title        = {Generalization of the Landauer Principle for Computing Devices Based on Many-Valued Logic},
  author       = {Edward Bormashenko},
  year         = {2019},
  journal      = {Entropy},
  publisher    = {MDPI AG},
  volume       = {21},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {1150},
  doi          = {10.3390/e21121150},
}

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