Landauer's Principle

Concept

physical principle that erasing one bit of information at temperature ๐‘‡ requires energy ๐‘˜๐‘‡ln(2)

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Videos Mentioning Landauer's Principle

Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #225

Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #225

Lex Fridman

Developed by Rolf Landauer, it states that information is physical and energy must be dissipated in computing when computation is irreversible, with a minimal amount of kT log2 per irreversible bit operation.