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The thermodynamic cost of quantum operations

zqyin 添加于 2016-4-14 09:24 | 1062 次阅读 | 0 个评论

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Bedingham D, Maroney O
摘要
The amount of heat generated by computers is rapidly becoming one of the main problems for developing new generations of information technology. The thermodynamics of computation sets the ultimate physical bounds on heat generation. A lower bound is set by the Landauer Limit, at which computation becomes thermodynamically reversible. For classical computation there is no physical principle which prevents this limit being reached, and approaches to it are already being experimentally tested. In this paper we show that for quantum computation there is an unavoidable excess heat generation that renders it inherently thermodynamically irreversible. The Landauer Limit cannot, in general, be reached by quantum computers. We show the existence of a lower bound to the heat generated by quantum computing that exceeds that given by the Landauer Limit, give the special conditions where this excess cost may be avoided, and show how classical computing falls within these special conditions.
详细资料
- 关键词: quant-ph
- 文献种类:手稿
- 期卷页: 2016年
- 日期: 2016-4-13
- 发布方式: arXiv e-prints
- 备注:arXiv:1604.03749v1; 13 pages, 3 figures
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