The computer as a physical system: A microscopic quantum mechanical Hamiltonian model of computers as represented by Turing machines

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1980, Pages 563-591

  Benioff, Paul ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

closed conservative system; Coleman model approximation; Computer as a physical system; microscopic Hamiltonian models of computers; quantum spin lattices; Schr dinger equation description of Turing machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250256884     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: 15729613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01011339     Document Type: Article

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