The physical nature of information

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 217, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 188-193

  Landauer, Rolf ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION;

LAWS OF PHYSICS; PHYSICAL NATURE; PHYSICAL UNIVERSE; QUANTUM PARALLELISM; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SUPERPOSITION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0642364104     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00453-7     Document Type: Article

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