How much of physics is just computation?

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 381-406

  Toffoli, Tommaso ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ENTROPY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICS; RELATIVITY;

ACTION OF PHYSICS; AMOUNT OF COMPUTATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0031679271     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/spmi.1997.0560     Document Type: Article

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